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...treatment makes pine as hard as oak, oak as hard as ebony. Wood so treated does not warp, split, swell or shrink appreciably. It resists fire, rotting and termites, can be made as strong as many metals. It can be dyed any color so that it never needs painting or refinishing. If the surface is scratched, its glossy finish can be restored by sandpapering and buffing. Impregnated wood makes possible among other things, doors, windows and drawers that do not stick or get loose...
...question heard in our quarters after we knock off work is, "What's the movie tonight?"and usually,the reply is: "It stinks." If we don't go to the movies, we just sit around and go "hut-crazy," so we really appreciated TIME giving us a swell plug...
...disappearance of four was announced within eight days ending last week-as many as were lost in all 1942. It looked as if the cost of the undersea campaign was rising. In that campaign the Pacific Fleet's submarines have hung up a record which makes Navy chests swell with pride-a record which many military men consider the finest of all the Armed Forces...
Eyemaker Noles says that plastic eyes will soon be big business. He figures that one in 500 U.S. citizens wears or needs an artificial eye, that returning soldiers will swell the total...
College civilian registration will drop during the spring term to a low mark of an estimated 677 undergraduates as against a pre-war total of 3500, Dean Buck announced last night. The entering Freshman Class of 75 will swell the Class of 1947 to 644 men, of whom an estimated 350 will remain to study in Cambridge in the coming trimester...