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Show Glamorous i l U. S. Department of Commerce Puts Title on Plastic Indusjry in Bulletin. Acting director of the U. S. department depart-ment of commerce's bureau of foreign for-eign and domestic commerce, in a reference service bulletin, issued this statement: "The spotlight of industry today is focused on pur glamorous plastics which are commanding much interest inter-est and attention. This gigantic new industry, now gone to war, is doing a fulltime job in meeting the requirements require-ments of the war effort where performance per-formance counts most "Both at the front and behind the front, plastics are playing an important part in war equipment. equip-ment. Through their ever-increasing use s materials vitally essential es-sential in both combat and industry indus-try they are now on equal basis with the older fundamental raw materials, glass, wood, stone and metal. "Although the new and original uses, as well as substitutions, in the non-essential civilian classification have been curtailed for the duration, the plastics industry, we feel assured, as-sured, will not retreat after the war, but continue its rapid advance." Bulletins being printed for the department de-partment of commerce contain latest lat-est information on present-day articles arti-cles now being made from .synthetics. .syn-thetics. As each new substitute is put on the market, the various bulletins have been listing them. Along with the articles listed are the trade names, besides technical names. Celluloid, one of the earliest synthetics, syn-thetics, which was used as transparent trans-parent windows for early model car side curtains, is the forerunner of comb, brush, and mirror handles |