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Show Synthetic Cloth One hundred per cent skim milk fiber looks and feels very much like vool. It can be made into cloth for draperies, dresses or even dish cloths. A bag of peanuts cpn become be-come a dress or a suit, too. If you know the process receruly discovered discov-ered by scientists in Great Britain-and Britain-and the United States. They are experimenting ex-perimenting with peanut protein,, which produces a synthetic fiber similar to wool, and can be mixed with, other fibers to make fsbvics. And British scientists have already produced from seaweed a cloth which has the appearance of nylon. Battleship Bakery Enmgh loaves of bread pop out of tl ovens in the bake shop of one of our 35, 000-ton battleships each week to satisfy the average one-cay consumption of every individual indi-vidual in a city of 8,500 population, according to Ships magazine. In addition to these 3,800 loaves of white, raisin and graham bread, the battleship bake shop turns out 700 pies, 8,000 hot rolls, 4.800 cinnamon rolls, 6,000 to 9,000 cookies, fruit slicer, coffee rings and birthday caker for special occasions. DDT Deposits DDT deposits on walls, screens, mattresses, rugs, etc., will kill such insects as flies, mosquitoes and bedbugs bed-bugs over a period of several weeks or months. Aid Blind Vets Veterans blinded in World War II can have a Seeing Eye dog for one dollar. Cost to civilians is $'.50. Soybean Production Soybean cultivation, pioneered in 1924 by the Slaley Manufacturing company of Decatur, 111., has made Illinois the nation's largest producer, produc-er, with an estimated 1945 crop ol 71,280,000 bushels. Keep Old Heads Certain government stations in head-hunting Borneo keep a few old heads on hand to be borrowed by I native tribes for ceremonial occasions. |