Word: lacquerer
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...shatterproof light bulb, with a strong filament and lacquer coating, that could be banged on a table without breaking...
...young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees. He removed the knee linings and covered the joints with pieces of non-waterproof cellophane from a shirt wrapping (waterproof cellophane, such as cigarets are wrapped in, is no good: its lacquer coating would irritate). Reopening one knee a few weeks later, he found the cellophane still there, flexible and intact, left it there. His patient, regaining limberness in both knees, took up dancing...
...mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...
Worst news was that business was terrific, would soon be super-terrific. A.T.A's. figure-minded, mustachioed General Manager Charles Gordon clambered on to the speaker's platform in the ornate Red Lacquer Room, bluntly told fidgety delegates what to expect: 20 billion passengers a year by October, 22 billion by December - a 30% increase over 1941's 17 billion. And after the Baruch rubber conservation scheme hit the headlines, Gordon upped his estimate to 24½ billion...
...good ideas in the first 500 suggestions to hit the jackpot with cumulative savings of 2,000 man-hours a day-enough to build seven big bombers in a year. A new tooling gadget for milling wing spars cut off 15-20 hours; a woman war worker in the lacquer department figured out how to save 90 woman-hours...