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Show THIS BUSINESS a & The other day somebody called my attention to a report on war-time war-time technological developments, made by a Senate committee. If , anyone thinks this country has ' reached the end of its economic development can anyone serious- , ly think that? let him read how American manufacturers have de- . vised wartime substitutes for scarce materials and then, when those got short, found substitutes for the substitutes. In the process they developed new materials and new methods. And when final victory comes, a lot of these new things will only require ingenuity and know-how to develop them into industries that will mean jobs and proSperitv , millions of people. or Take plywood, for example There's hardly a limit to it, ' sibilitiea. Or the great new & of plastics and processed Electros can be applied In less ways. And there are not well known but very ing new inventions that somJX" with get-up is going to do with after the war. Reading report at random I f0und I r chine for processing milkweed"' possible substitute for wood' h gage made of blotting pape; synthetic rubber; and a cork sT stitute that is made from Z peauut hulls! |