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...Stainless steel construction is as light as aluminum, because, though the steel is nearly three times as heavy, it is also a good deal stronger, so less metal—perhaps only one-third or one-fourth as much—need be used...
Lignin plastics are the cheapest plastics yet devised; at 5? per lb. for the powder they cost only one-third to one-fourth the cost of most synthetic resins. But today they have a still greater advantage-they require as little as 2 or 3% phenol (carbolic acid), a chief component of the commonest plastics and now a badly needed, priorities-listed ingredient. Furthermore, lignin molding powders can be mixed to "extend" phenol plastics by 100%, synthetic rubber for many uses by 100 to 500%. This aspect of lignin was last week under intensive study by the U.S. Army & Navy...
...named Twinkle Watts has humiliated thousands of husky U.S. bowlers. Her high game: 218. Last week, during a cross-country barnstorming tour, bowling's tiniest demonstrated her skill in Manhattan for the benefit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Using a regulation 10½lb. ball, just one-fourth her own weight, Twinkle bowled three games, averaged...
...restrictions were clamped on washing machines (large companies cut to 60% of last year's average), juke boxes (to one-fourth by February), "one-armed bandits" (no slot machines at all after January...
...Department and draft officials wanted a bill which made men between 19 and 45 liable for active service. They figured that there were 30,000,000 in the group, about one-fourth of whom were fit for service. But the Military Affairs Committee gagged, finally passed an amendment which set the minimum age at 21. If the bill passes Congress in that form, original calculations will have to be revised, draft officials will have to look more sharply at married men and men with dependents. Some Congressmen vowed they would fight to have the 19-year minimum restored. But whatever...