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...snares that brought down the behemoth Mr. Riebel and now faced Mr. Kaiser were still the same: 1) an ironclad, waterproof contract with C.LO.'s United Automobile Workers which straitjackets management, banning it from firing, shifting or disciplining workers without union permission, 2) bad control of materials, which sometimes forced workers to loaf...
...first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees. He removed the knee linings and covered the joints with pieces of non-waterproof cellophane from a shirt wrapping (waterproof cellophane, such as cigarets are wrapped in, is no good: its lacquer coating would irritate). Reopening one knee a few weeks later, he found the cellophane still there, flexible and intact, left it there. His patient, regaining limberness in both knees, took up dancing...
...drops will fall on soft, welcoming grass, for space is limited at Wellesley this year, for the Naval Supply School has put a waterproof cover over Cazenove and Pomeroy dorms and no little droplets can get in. So it will be close quarters for the little adorables this year and no single rooms, poor things, but a droplet is a droplet, boys, so lift your fingers high and catch...
...light (three tons) and compact that it can be moved from place to place on a truck trailer. Its chief feature is a new insulating material called Plastic Foam, which looks like dry ice, weighs only a tenth as much as rock wool or cork board, is fireproof, waterproof, soundproof. The house, tele scoped to 8 ft. wide on the road, pulls out to 15 ft. to provide two bedrooms, has a small living room and kitchen, costs $1,800 complete with furniture...
...Army Air Forces have developed and already put into use a hand-powered radio transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...