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...reason for the Eskimo's comfort in below-zero weather is that his clothes are not built on the European principle of insulating the body with many layers of cloth fitting close to the skin. Eskimo clothes are designed to capture and hold warm air. The loose fur trousers fit snugly over the boots. No cold air can rise up the legs to replace air that has been warmed by the body. Over the trousers the Eskimo wears a windtight fur parka with the skin side outside and no opening in front. It has a hood and it fits...
...postwar years, but it is only a tiny fraction of Vickers' mighty empire, sprawling over 17 separate divisions. Vickers has 80,000 workers, assets of nearly $400 million; last year its profits hit $20 million on an array of products from aircraft to yzarine (a type of suede cloth for shoes...
VOODOO-IT-YOURSELF KIT has been developed for the Air Force by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. To make repairs on its new supersonic Voodoo jet fighter, the St. Louis planemaker has printed 1,100 drawings of structural parts (wing panels, etc.) on a special, transparent glass cloth. All a mechanic has to do is lay the cloth over a sheet of chemically prepared metal, set it in the sun; the sun's rays trace the part's exact outline on the metal for the mechanic...
Suddenly there is a waffling noise in her chimney, the sound of tearing cloth, and a rain of shiny brass buttons into the fireplace. Then, with a loud plop, a red-clad figure appears on the hearth in a cloud of ash-dust, coughing violently. And Virginia thinks the recognizes...
...here it's different." Just then a lad wearing a white cloth coat dropped a plate of meat on the table and asked how many wanted java. Six hands went...