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...Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
...stew about censorship last week. The censorship had nothing to do with the war. A farmer had complained to Eire's Book Censorship Bureau that he had found his daughter reading The Tailor and Anstey, a translation from the Gaelic of free-style conversation between an old Cork peasant and his wife. The Bureau (four professors, one a Catholic priest) promptly banned the book...
Kapok's old rivals-cork and balsa wood-are no help. They are just as scarce. But ersatz kapoks are coming from field and factory and, as often happens, may win permanent victories over their prototype. Some of the more promising...
...around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork or aluminum floats for his nets is about to switch to U.S. floats of pressed glass or Foamglas...
...molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according to George Pope MacNichol Jr., vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford, is at a historic crossroads...