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...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...then one of the debutantes, beautifully dressed in fringed and beaded buckskin and wearing beaded moccasins, would steal away and snatch a few minutes' sleep, returning when the beat of the tom-toms quickened. On the third day the Apaches and their guests amused themselves with baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. On the third night they danced again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Debut | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during a cloudburst. Before the night was over Myron had backslid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good & Bad Indians | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...BUCKSKIN BRIGADES-L. Ron Hubbard-Macaulay ($2). Indignant tale about the Northwest fur trade, featuring a white hero who fought on the side of the Blackfeet Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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