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When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
...Nonrunning waterproof wax for the cosmetic stockings...
...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...family might band together on a waterproof wrist watch or small portable radio. Almost 90% of the sailors and 75% of the soldiers want the wrist watch, making it the most popular single item. More than 75% of the sailors went for radios, even though they are banned at sea. (Portable phonographs are also popular in the Navy.) The radio, if sent, must be really small because no overseas package should be bigger than a shoebox nor weigh more than six pounds...
Potential irritants are almost everywhere-e.g., the oils with which sheets of aviation aluminum are coated, the chloronaphthalenes which waterproof electrical equipment, the oils which cool and lubricate the cutting edges of machine tools. Cutting oils are probably most bothersome. A Federal survey of 2,000 machinists in 1922 found that 27% of these workers suffered from oil acne. Vegetable and animal oils have often replaced the petroleum oils, but machinist's dermatitis is still common...