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...Some women take privileges that men can't get away with. They smoke when they are not supposed to, powder their noses on company time just before quitting, or waste time gossiping in gangs of two or more in the rest rooms...
...craters are measured, the radius of destruction noted (everything within 100 yards is destroyed and a man might be killed at even greater distances). Of primary interest to Army Ordnance is the weapon itself-the number and shape of the fragments from the exploded bomb, the action of the powder charge. All this data is filed so that the science of destruction can be improved...
...This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...
...next year, four times any pre-war year. Most of this huge increase will be met by the liquor makers, who have an estimated capacity of 435,000,000 gallons annually. If things go as planned, the liquor industry will supply the newly developed war alcohol market (rubber and powder) and regular alcohol producers will handle the ordinary market (plastics, lacquers, chemicals, anti-freeze...
...emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face...