Word: lacquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...