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...Kingston, Ont. On Canadian Thanksgiving (Monday), after the prisoners had gone two days without food, the energetic future commandos, hooting like Indians, carried out a planned campaign. They battered through the camp door with a telephone pole, chopped a hole in the roof, bayoneted the windows, turned a fire hose in. After 35 minutes of high-pressure water and tear gas, the Nazis marched out smartly in military formation...
Taking the place of regulars on fire trucks, they learn how to handle and operate fire hose, pumps, and aerial ladders in realistic drills. The volunteers lean everything from the fundamentals of a city water supply to the operation of modern fire alarm systems...
...Progressive education ("a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new psychology...
...plastic to replace rubber in raincoats, golf balls, baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose...
...Wichita, Kans., two ambitious boys sold a filling-station attendant a rubber garden hose loaded with lead, received the rubber-salvage price of 1? per Ib. for their weighted goods. Their salvage price for lead itself would have been...