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Developed by the Hercules Powder Co., which worked on the problem for many years, the new method involves a powdered resin called Stabinol. The powder is spread on the soil, a few pounds per square yard; then it is harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
...History is an eyeful of the artifacts which early Americans shaped and used and which (to the degree that things shape people) shaped the early Americans. The book contains 411 pages of houses, ancestors, Indian scalps, weathervanes, mousetraps, cannon, dolls, ships, skillets, forts, bells, barn locks, cradles, fans, whaleboats, powder horns, figureheads, quadrants, wigs, sugar tongs, smokehouses, privies, churches, fire engines, nursing bottles, grease buckets, saltcellars, muskets, paper money, tombstones, waterwheels, spurs, scissors,jugs, bookplates, teapots and a thousand other objects from buggies to tavern signs. It is a big book with white stars against a blue background...
Seemingly out of place every morning when the junior class lines up at formation is a slightly-built, always smiling officer clad in a distinctive, powder blue uniform. Having heard scuttlebutt going around that he was from (a) the Bolivian Coast Guard, (b) the Chilean Army, and (c) the Nicaraguan Merchant Marine, we sought him out the other evening, just by way of accurately determining his identity. We found out that he is Captain Manual Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force...
...Army proved at Naples that its new DDT (real name censored) delousing powder is the best typhus-preventive yet discovered, better than steam or typhus vaccine. Colonel William E. Stone of Pocatello, Idaho, one of the men who helped develop it, said that DDT may put an end to insect-borne diseases. Altogether, 1,300,000 people were dusted in Naples...
...long before the personnel could move in, U.S. powder requirements were drastically reduced. British and Russian powder plants were not bombed out, as the Army had feared. The cost of Gopher was cut almost in half, the six powder lines were cut to three. By the time these were finished last fall, powder plants were already being closed around the nation...