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...tire material is an elastic vinyl plastic called Plioflex, which Good year had already found good for many other uses, including a garden hose which is much lighter than rubber-and-fabric, shoe uppers that need no polishing and can be cleaned with a damp cloth, heels, raincoats, draperies, etc. The key to its tire-making properties is a new curing agent that makes it possible to vulcanize Plioflex...
Narrow Squeaks. The illness was one more close call for Churchill. At the age of nine, in the damp, cold English climate, he had double pneumonia. There were no sulfa drugs then. The physician who attended him remarked, when he saw the recovery, that Churchill had a charmed life...
...Some anonymous buildings, suggesting another paragraph by Poet MacNeice: "And it is heartbreaking, too, to walk through parts of the East End which may not lately have been bombed but which were more or less evacuated under an earl ier terror and left to the rats and the damp -the petrification of the memory of poverty. Street after street of empty stinking homes which will never-or so we hope-be anybody's homes any more...
...engaging roughness through the crowded bedrooms, offices and baths of wartime Washington. It is the first picture to be produced and directed, as well as written, by top flight Scripter Dudley Nichols. Nichols did not want the job, which was tossed into his lap, like somebody else's damp baby, and he is reported to be unhappy about the result...
...last week the guerrillas cleared patches on the damp forest floor. Then a fleet of Russian transports came overhead, and spewed men and weapons down on the clearings. The men re-formed into columns, and together with the guerrillas struck toward Cherkassy...