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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Nicaragua and Costa Rica are apidly expanding their balsa crops d keep up with current war demands de-mands and in anticipation of wood's l.portant role in postwar aviation. The use of tin to preserve food afely in metal containers was first xploited by Napoleon's engineers reparatory to his invasion of Rus-ia. Rus-ia. Cinchona seeds have grown in the 1. S., the seedlings have been flown I South America and successfully rown there for quinine production. Increasingly efficient utilization of ircraft labor has resulted in more lar planes for Allied flying forces rith fewer workers. A new training film which puts rar industry workers on the produc-ton produc-ton line in one-fourth to one-third iss time has been developed by the t. S. Office of Education. Stamp out turnover stay on the job and finish the job! That should be every American's" creed. All honorably discharged members mem-bers of the armed forces both men and women will be assisted in every ev-ery way possible to find a job to their liking, according to Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Man-power commission. Women are now employed as armed guards in the New Castle workhouse in Delaware, as traffic policemen in AshevUle, N. C, and as street cleaners in Baltimore, Md. More power to them. A vigilant safety patrolman, with an electric eye that can see the ghostly shadows of many otherwise invisible gases and vapors, has been developed to warn of dangerous concentrations con-centrations of these compounds in the atmosphere of manufacturing plants. |