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...shown by Henry Ford in Dearborn last week. It was the product of his own long dream-that industry should use more farm crops-and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave...
Battery practice resulted in nothing more than a shock for the Mount Auburn Street humorists when they discovered that Prexy Coles Phinizy, slated to take the mound Thursday when the two teams meet in their annual jeu de baseball (Fr.), didn't know how to use resin or cut plug and had never heard...
...Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
...plastic which softens and purifies water for home or industrial use far more efficiently than the silicates now commonly used was announced by Robert James Myers of Resinous Products & Chemical Co. of Philadelphia. Made of resin, this plastic is the first whose chemical, rather than physical, properties are employed...
Research in the Museum's technical department of conservation continued on "solubility of film materials used in surface coatings of works of art, particularly combinations of oil and resin; prevention of growth of mold and micro-organisms in the paint of pictures and in the supporting materials; response of wood to atmospheric conditions and means for making it less mobile in change temperature and humidity; the relation of paint medium and paint structure to characteristics of handling or execution in pictorial design...