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Lately Noles has begun making artificial eyes from plastic (Chicago's Mager & Gougelman also make them). Reason: glass-eye glass came from Germany and supplies were dwindling. Now he has decided that plastic eyes (material is similar to that used in dental plates) are better than glass eyes anyway. Advantages: 1) they are not breakable-Noles illustrates this by bouncing a plastic eye on the floor, catching it on the rebound without a scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because...
...weight 20% and improve efficiency. It is made non-spilling and hence portable by an absorbent filling which soaks up the electrolytic fluid. The absorbed fluid still conducts current. Thus the battery works just as well when its container is cracked or shot away. The battery's plastic case does not corrode or absorb acid; this prevents current leakage-an old storage-battery failing. And there are visible markers that show when the battery needs refilling...
Every week a 25-lb. package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline miles from Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others...
...Bulletin is a little larger than pocket-size, starts with news and comment (e.g., new uses for penicillin, announcement of a new plastic hospital tray or a course in dentistry, statistics on war dogs, report of an epidemic from ham, a note on horses' eyes). It goes on to special articles on standard procedures (e.g., a series on malaria) and original articles from army doctors everywhere. The brisk little Bulletin sells for $2 a year...
...Hunters' Teller. Some new German mines have nonmetallic casings to foil the electrical detectors. Some have chemical rather than metallic fuses. One type has a soft plastic case which raises no hum in the electrical locators. To a probing bayonet, it feels like the surrounding earth. The new ratchet mine has a geared fuse wheel which moves around, a notch at a time, when a wheel goes over it. This mine can be set to go off after any number of vehicles (from one to 29) have passed safely...