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...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...
...processes, is there one he dare not miss? To date at least 20 ideas have been considered worth investigation. Nothing new has turned up. There are half a dozen ways to make rubber-about 50, if impracticable processes are included. More than 1,000 plants are known to contain latex, from guayule (TIME, Dec. 29) on down. WPB experts are open-minded, but rubber samples are hard to analyze. So chemists often don't know what they contain...
...From an unpainted shack near Tampa came J. Andrew Tatro, displaying a "biscuit" of "rubber" produced (said he) in jig-time from a mysterious hybrid of two latex-bearing plants, suitable for Florida cultivation. Only J. Andrew and his son Andrew Orvill know the secret...
...Army, more bumps: substitutes may have to be devised for the foamed latex cushions in tanks, crash pads in airplanes, and parachute seats. Football and basketball bladders had gone the way of golf, tennis, squash and handballs (TIME...
...rubber making, where they help the dispersal of pigments and vulcanizing sulfur through latex...