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...Germans succeed in pinning the Russians before they reach Smolensk, the Red Army may still attempt more drives farther north. But in spite of those drives, the Germans will have succeeded on the northern front, as they had down south, in solidifying lines which had become dangerously liquid. Without Smolensk, the Russians cannot hope for really important gains in the north. When the lines and Russia's muddy earth are both solid again, then one side or the other will doubtless try, try again...
...Dektred is a new Goodyear nonskid flooring material for ships. A thick liquid, it may be sprayed or troweled on steel, wood or concrete, weighs little in the thin coating (1/32 in.) needed. Dektred is unimpaired by 50°-below-zero cold, softens but slightly in 160° heat, resists gasoline, oil, soap, salt water...
...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
...Newest use of the oldest plastic (cellulose nitrate) is for storage-battery housings. Designed for portable searchlights on war duty, the new batteries point toward postwar automobile batteries that are lighter, tougher, and so transparent that the level of the liquid may be checked at a glance...