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...business: no more pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
...they exchanged their patents for others to Standard Oil of New Jersey, which licensed them in turn to several U.S. rubber processors. Chemists of the U.S. Rubber Co. discovered that polymerization of butadiene was easier when it was emulsified in soapy water and converted by pressure into a milky, latex-like dispersion. This method is now used in Germany. Goodrich's Ameripol rubber is made by a similar emulsion process...
...eaten away by cancer, cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that only an eagle eye can spot them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses "prevulcanized liquid latex," a creamy rubber compound, which can be tinted delicately before it hardens...
Last week "Cryovac" bags were being tested for consumer appeal by four packing companies. A difficulty: some people have a prejudice against rubber as a food wrapper. Dewey and Almy is confident that this will be overcome, since their latex is odorless, tasteless...
Last week the new chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...