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...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side...
...Lashio that clear night there were 2,000 U. S.-built trucks, into which 5,000 coolies of many tribes lifted cargoes of many sorts-wings of airplanes, lock nuts for lathes, rolls of adhesive plaster, flashlights, tins of high-octane gasoline, rifle barrels, barrels of kerosene, raw cotton: materials of war and of war economy. The loading dumps covered acres. Some $20,000,000 worth of China's future lay there...
...Plaster of Paris absorbs moisture, and the wetter it gets, the lower its electrical resistance. Dr. George John Bouyoucos of Michigan State College made use of this principle in a handy gadget which tells farmers the moisture content of their fields. Blocks of plaster of Paris the size of safety-match boxes are buried with wires leading to the surface. The wetter the soil, the lower the resistance of the buried blocks. Measurements can be taken by merely hooking the surface wires to a Wheatstone bridge, which measures the electrical resistance. By burying a number of plaster blocks...
...soldiers, was set to work dismantling ruined structures, salvaging usable materials, repairing where repair was possible. Another army, drafted from the unemployed, was deployed to pick and sweep up rubble and debris, fill holes in streets. When the sun shone, London's atmosphere was fuzzy with plaster dust from pulverized buildings. But the authorities thought the time had come at least to pick up the pieces...
...wanted the kind of place where people like himself would not be sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William Gropper) to plaster its walls with jibes against cafe socialites-who returned the compliment by staying away. Nevertheless, Cafe Society made money. Its clientele was mostly 1) left-wing intellectuals, 2) jazz addicts. For Proprietor Josephson placed the joint's musical policy in the reverential hands of John Henry Hammond Jr., arch-hierophant...