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A general call for plain talk in high places came from Barnard College's veteran Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. She wondered why the New York City War Council felt it necessary to say: "Illumination is required to be extinguished before these premises are closed to business."†
[The moments of mystical illumination]
> Joseph M. Gordon, fluorescent and luminescent products consultant of New York, has made the use of black light for night flying,† now usually confined to instrument-panel illumination, easily practical for all members of a bomber's crew.
Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may...
On the basis of extensive war-plant research, especially in aircraft factories, Du Pont also recommends soft light-reflecting colors for factory floors so that light will "bounce up" and assist in working on the under surfaces of such jobs as aircraft wings. By suitable changes in the colors of...