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...products of the Wartime boom in the chemical industry was the development of non-inflammable plastics. Until then the plastic business's chief claim to fame was the familiar, fire-hazardous celluloid collar. Since then the world has become accustomed to plastic toothbrushes and fountain pens, automobile steering wheels and gearshift knobs, radio cabinets and poker chips...
Safety glass is a double sheet with a transparent filler or binding layer between. In the old glass the filler was cellulose acetate. In the new it is polyvinyl acetal resin, a synthetic plastic made from acetylene. In an automobile this flexible, yielding pane is something like a transparent, moistureproof, windproof curtain. It is expected to cut down the number and seriousness of highway injuries due to sudden stops...
Willy-nilly, Katharine Cornell remains the star type. She is not unversatile, and she is richly gifted: her plastic face, moving voice, vivid gestures, her taste for grandiose and romantic roles, proclaim the "star" personality. When that personality cannot be directly, physically, communicated, as in her life story, it dries up like ink on a blotter...
Last week the metallurgical journal Metal Progress commented on the researches of Professor Daniel Hanson of England's University of Birmingham, who had divided creep into four stages. These are elastic stretch (like rubber); plastic flow (like mud); slower plastic flow; approach to fracture. Professor Hanson's theory of fracture is that the metal atoms, under continuing mechanical stress plus their own agitation due to heat, are moved one by one to new positions so that the whole structure is weakened. When enough atoms are thus individually moved, the metal breaks...
...most striking thing in Mr, Rubenstein is the three-dimensional solidity of his bodies. It is evident in his muscular studies, as "Thor" and "Hand Grenade Throwers," and in the fine plastic anatomy of his faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native...