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From the Japanese and their puppets, the Communists took over properties roughly valued at $15,000,000, as well as some 300 kilometers of the Peiping-Suiyuan Railroad. They have reopened two flour mills, and factories making cigarets, matches, soap, porcelain, lacquer, varnish and even artificial eyes...
...skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...
...Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch of the baby's skin proved he was right: the child was allergic to the hair lacquer its mother used to keep her hair sleekly stiff. Within a week after the mother began to let hair lacquer alone, the baby's skin was perfectly smooth...
...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...
...Chrysler Corp. is producing a scattershot shell to fit the regulation .45 pistol. Purpose: so that lost flyers and shipwrecked sailors can hunt small game and even shoot surfaced fish. The shells have a steel case with a red lacquer paper nose holding about 135 lead shot. Effective range...