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...earnest that information would be available the Navy released the names of twelve British warships now in U.S. ports. This was a great improvement over past practice although it has one major drawback even from the Government's standpoint. There were several ships conspicuously missing from the Navy's published list, which was admittedly incomplete. The public will probably not feel much better so long as it knows that the Navy is holding out as much information as it feels like...
Student waiting was voted down in an all-House poll last spring. But student employment in the kitchens has no drawback of social stigma, and there seems to be no logical reason why it would not be better for a House member to be earning board in his own House than in a hash-joint on the Square. This is particularly true since Houses are going to have trouble getting kitchen help this year, anyhow...
...Treated with organic solvents, soybean meal makes a plastic which is light, durable, almost transparent, waterproof, fireproof, rotproof. Many auto parts and countless miscellaneous objects are made of it. A main drawback, which chemists soon expect to overcome, is that it is hygroscopic (too eager to absorb water...
...great drawback is the fact that penicillin is difficult and expensive to extract. Until it can be synthesized, or more cheaply prepared, it will probably be reserved only for desperate cases-for heavily infected wounds, severe staphylococcic diseases, possibly gas gangrene. It cannot yet be obtained...
...machine that could play both sides of a record without flipping it over. Up to now, record changers have been of two types: 1) the "drop" type, which plays a stack of records butter-side up only; 2) the Capehart, which flips records like flapjacks on a griddle. Drawback of the drop type: it cannot play alternate sides in sequence. Drawback of the Capehart: it is expensive...