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Thiokol is an elastic plastic made by Dow Chemical Co. Its merits as a retread material, hitherto overlooked, were enthusiastically presented to WPB last week by an authoritative group of experts from the rubber, chemical and automotive industries, headed by famed Research Engineer Charles Kettering of General Motors. They told the Government that Thiokol...
...Hitler has had his fat nose streamlined by a plastic surgeon. He has had himself painted with a halo around his brow. For the benefit of posterity he has had his head measured by scientists, who prepared a 130-page report; he has willed that after death his brain shall be dissected...
...plane represented a personal victory. Ward and associates in the wood airplane business had long contended that veneers stuck together with plastic glues could be fashioned into flying machines as big as houses, if necessary. In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers. Now the Army has asked Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. to make big, wood-veneer, twin-engine planes for bomber-crew training-as fast, as maneuverable as many twin-engine bombers on the war fronts. They will be complete, with bombs in their belly bays and guns...
...laboratory-born resins, chief constituent of the new plastic glues, set like concrete, are impervious to weather or bacterial attack. A piece of plastic plywood stuck into the muck of Florida's everglades by the Department of Agriculture was pulled out two years later in perfect condition...
Like the gunner in a Flying Fortress, they may look out through a transparent plastic top. Car bodies may be of plastic panels, tougher than steel. Tires, smaller than now, may be made of synthetic rubber. With better weight-to-horsepower ratio, with zoo-octane (instead of 74) gas in the tank, post-war cars are likely to get more miles to the gallon. Best news of all: there is a good chance they will be cheaper, perhaps as cheap as $300 (1942 value...