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...Thefts of cloth (recently rationed) had jumped 200% since black-market agents wormed their way into department-store staffs...
...people in Changteh in Hunan Province ran for cover as a Japanese plane skimmed over their roof tops. The plane circled for an hour. It dropped no bombs. But on the ground near the two main gates to the city, scattered grains of rice and shreds of cotton cloth were later found. The police destroyed them, but saved some samples for testing. The samples were full of Pasteurella pestis, the short oval bacillus of bubonic plague...
...Plastics in both common forms: 1) molding powders from which odd-shaped objects are pressed; 2) laminated sheets-i.e., layers of paper or cloth bound together and coated with lignin derivatives-which are used in such simple large-surface products as tabletops, refrigerator and airplane doors. Laminated lignin plastics are one-half the weight of aluminum, one-fifth the weight of steel. Pound for pound they are as strong as steel. The expanding U.S. output of lignin plastics can be used almost entirely for military purposes, e.g., parts for ships, tanks, planes, bomb fuses, cases for shipping shells, insulators...
...liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...
...Faces should be vizarded in helmets of windproof cloth, with holes for eyes and mouth, pads of blanket cloth for nose and cheeks...