Word: isinglass
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Probable lineups: WE THEY Farb, A. P. Arb, U. G. O'Crustes, P. R. Isinglass, C. O. Coffin, E. G. Ergo, I. E. Simple, W. Murray Dunce (Cap.) Crass, B. O. A. Stilborne, O. C. Foo, K. Fowne, E. Ole (Cap.) Doung, M. O. O. ranter, D. L. Darnom, H. A. Gumdrop...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...
Mica, which laymen know as isinglass, is mainly used in peacetime as a nonconductor for electrical equipment. When war hit the Far East, almost everything about mica immediately became a military secret. Reason: most high-grade mica comes from India, and without it no tank, ship or airplane would be of much use, since mica is essential for radio condensers, and there have been no acceptable substitutes...
...produce cotton, the one perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...
Last year Professor Ernst Alfred Hauser of Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered a new kind of wrapping material -odorless, tasteless, impervious to fire and corrosion by acids-made from bentonite clay and called "Alsifilm" (TIME, Nov. 7). Alsifilm is already being used to replace mica (isinglass) in electric motor and generator insulation. Last week Professor Hauser looked forward to a time when Alsifilm would free the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies of mica, now largely imported from India...