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Self-Sealing Sugar Bag. To keep brown sugar from drying out and hardening, Godchaux Sugars Inc., New Orleans, has developed a new wax-and-paper lining which acts as a self-sealing package. An inner layer of flexible wax plugs any cracks in the liner, seals in the moisture. Price...
...bandage that does not stick to wounds, so that it peels off painlessly and bloodlessly, was announced by Bauer & Black. Called Telfa, it has a perforated plastic layer next to the skin...
According to Meteorologist Morris Tepper, the thing for tornado predictors to watch for is a "pressure jump." When conditions are right, as they all too frequently are in tornado regions, the air contains an "inversion," a layer whose temperature is sharply different from the air above or below it. Since cold air is heavier than warm air, the boundary between the layers may have "gravity waves" in it, just as the ocean has waves in the boundary between water...
...prove this theory the Columbia scientists took cores of the material that forms the abyssal plains. They found what they hoped to find. On top is a thin layer of "lutite," very fine silt deposited from still water. Below it is the coarse sand that was carried over the sea bottom for hundreds of miles by mighty under-ocean rivers...
...producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international market, later piled up an estimated $10 million fortune...