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...plastic beer-bottle...
...shoemakers have only shaky hopes of selling many ersatz shoes. Plastics are already short. There are not even enough plastic shoes to ration. Wood for heels, failles for uppers, fiberboard for inner-soles, and even the cements that hold them together, are also on the critical list. And the shoe industry, with average wages of $29 a week v. $52 in war industries, is suffering from acute manpower shortage: in December, it had 26,000 (13%) less workers than a year...
...battle or in an accident, a Detroit sculptor named Beaver Edwards can make you a duplicate, in three weeks, so lifelike that only close observers can tell the difference. Like Hollywood's Jack Dawn (TIME, July 12), Beaver Edwards makes his realistic faces and ears of a rubbery plastic. Jack Dawn learned his methods as a Hollywood make-up chief. Beaver Edwards developed his by teaching sculpture at the Michigan College of Mortuary Science...
Edwards hands are not articulated because standard mechanical hands are lifesize, and when covered with Edwards' special plastic would look monstrous. Last week Edwards was planning to make an articulated plastic hand by using a smaller than life-size mechanical model...
Eyemaker Noles says that plastic eyes will soon be big business. He figures that one in 500 U.S. citizens wears or needs an artificial eye, that returning soldiers will swell the total...