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...Shift. In clothes-rationed London, shift-hungry women hit on a makeshift: unrationed blackout cloth...
...After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard, tough coat...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
Meteorologists are sure that under ordinary conditions it is impossible to duplicate the natural forces that make rain. But Table Mountain's "cloth" is not an ordinary cloud. Created by a wet south easter that constantly blows against the upper slopes of the mountain, the cloud, spilling over the mountainsides, is so moist that water drips from the trees and bushes it envelops, and rainfall high on the mountain averages up to 72 inches a year...