Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best test pilots, at the bomber's controls. Followed by two F-80 "chase airplanes" (to observe the X-1 in flight), the B-29 circled to 7,000 ft. above the lake. Then Chuck, bundled in a flying suit and topped with a golden, hard-plastic crash helmet, climbed down a retractable ladder and squeezed through the door in the side...
...enough for him. Behind him, cramming most of the fuselage, were thick-walled tanks of "lox" (liquid oxygen) and alcohol. Tucked away in odd places, even under his feet, were heavy flasks of nitrogen gas compressed to 4,500 Ibs. a square inch. The windshield (of glass, rather than plastic, so it would not melt from air friction) was too small to give much visibility. From all sides, and above and below, a bristle of controls, dials and warning lights pressed on the pilot's seat...
...cold well) and between metal sheets in prefabricated building units. Non-inflammable, it has a specific gravity between .008 and .012; among currently popular insulators, rock wool ranges from .15 to .25, fiber glass from .02 to .15. (Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon learn to cook it on the spot...
Merrick, who consulted probation officers, psychiatrists and a plastic surgeon...
...Chicago Surgeon John F. Pick reported (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) that less than i% of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery from Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary got into any more trouble; usual rate for parole violation...