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Domes & Nooks. Coaches, diners and "tavern cars" will be equipped with the General Motors designed "Vista Dome" (TIME, June 18)-a glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...
...Thermo-Cast, developed in Columbia University laboratories, speeds aircraft production. A plastic that acts like a metal, it may be melted and cast without pressure. Thermo-Cast is tough enough, although one-fifth the weight of steel, to stand up in dies used to shape aluminum sheets. By stamping larger sections, the number of rivets needed is reduced, assembly time is speeded...
...last week: "Neither nakedness nor underwear are authorized Navy outer uniforms at present. The sun's age and man's antiquity being what they are, sunbathing has been practised for some time in the past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least temporarily....The use of trunks has been established as suitable for public swimming from ships of the Navy...
...LANDSLIDE BLOCKS THERMO. PYLAE PASS" New York Times...
During the present year full courses are being given in Thermo-dynamics and in Electromechanics; there is also a half course in Hydro-mechanics being conducted this semester...