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...doomed? American Can Co. last week got ready to produce a so-called fiber ersatz for the metal cans of which this company has hitherto been No. 1 U.S. manufacturer...
Thus OCD last week reversed its No. 1 rule for fighting incendiaries, after new experiments at the Army's Civilian Protection School (in Maryland). Hitherto air-raid wardens and firefighters have been warned again & again that a solid stream of water played on an incendiary will produce a blinding explosion and sudden death...
Agar-agar is a gelatinous protein, essential in hospital laboratories for the culture and identification of bacteria and the testing of serums and antitoxins. Hitherto imported from Japan, it is now produced from another seaweed, only twelve inches high, which grows on the rocky sea bottom along the coast of Southern California...
...strange wartime substitute was in the making last week-a substitute for scrap iron & steel. It is called sponge iron, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines has decided to risk $500,000 in hurry-up development of the hitherto unpractical process by which it is made...
...carrying 2,000 men each. And some 3,500 planes of types now in use (Boeing B-17 four-engine bombers, or Consolidated PBY-2 four-engine patrol bombers) could transfer a streamlined division from one coast to the other in one night. The problem is not whether such hitherto undreamed-of fleets are desirable. The problem is how they can be created...