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...putting Harry Langdon through such comedies as The Strong Man. With It Happened One Night and subsequent box-office wows, he became one of the slickest and most surefire, and developed a warm but somewhat spongy liberalism. The war and the Army seem to have stiffened his humanitarian fiber. Never a bossy boss, he leaves his assistants much to their own devices. He can well afford to-among the film virtuosi now under his command are Major Anatole Litvak, Major Anthony Veiller, and veteran cutter Captain William Hornbeck. Among their projects is a series of three films called Know Your...
...years between 15 and 20 are the most difficult years in life. . . . Great biological changes are taking place. . . . Who cares about the dead past, when every fiber of one's body is tingling in a glorious present...
...sponges-at four minutes to a sponge. He went home and said so. Then in self-defense he invented a semi-automatic bandage folder that would do the job in one minute. The device was made of wallboard, hinged with cloth tape, and was worth about 30?. Later, saturated fiber sheet and waterproof adhesive tape were used. Mr. Burnham gave the Delaware Red Cross full patent rights...
...many other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...
...acid and a base related to ammonia called hexamethylene-diamine) dissolves like sugar in hot tea. On cooling, the adipic acid crystallizes out and is purified, while the diamine remains in solution and can be purified by distillation. The two white crystalline chemicals resulting from this unscrambling of nylon fiber are then recombined and polymerized to form the long, tenuous molecules that give nylon its strength and elasticity. This new liquid nylon, identical with the original substance, can be squeezed out into the types of fiber needed for war uses...