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...whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
Printing, paper, binding, wrapper...
Last week "Cryovac" bags were being tested for consumer appeal by four packing companies. A difficulty: some people have a prejudice against rubber as a food wrapper. Dewey and Almy is confident that this will be overcome, since their latex is odorless, tasteless...
...pregnant - a quiet, pale girl dressed in a calico wrapper, a sunbonnet and part of an old army uniform. He gets her into the boat, pushes off. From this point on it is the convict against the Mississippi-he trying to get the boat and the woman back to the guards, the Mississippi plunging him through thickets, over cotton fields, up past Vicksburg and down past Baton Rouge, past dead cows, bobbing outhouses; and leaving him the exhausted, hungry, indignant victim of nature on the loose...
Usually printed hopefully on the gum-wrappers is the admonition to "Use this wrapper to dispose of gum," but such is the artistic nature of the chewers that they prefer to dispose of the sticky masses in the nude...