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Last January, the Tennyson committee's first skeleton-simple, material-&-labor-saving Utility Furniture was on sale: 45 designs of 17 essential pieces. Wood was used only for legs, struts and supports. Metal was allowed only for bedsprings. All flat surfaces were made of a compressed wood fiber ⅛ inch thick called hardboard...
...smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed it beneath the dignity of big-time racketeers. But its furtive preparation and sale afford a modest living to thousands...
...Flax Fiber..... 6,500 None...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...
...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...