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Show I Tie Army's New Wooden Plane J I . ' .'-. ThisTan office war ' departme'nV sketch , o, the new type wood and non-strategic material military transport plane. It is twin origin about the size o, the present-day all-met al tr anspor plane domestic airlines. It is officially designated the Curt.ss C-76. Performan details are a military secret. Mississippi levee in Louisiana is partially the cause for discontentment discontent-ment in Axis nations. Soybeans, from which many plastic plas-tic articles useful both for the war effort, and helpful in the homes, is another farm product that is being further developed. Bagasse obtained from sugar cane waste has proven its worth for electrical goods, washing wash-ing machines and automobile parts. Possibly the toothbrush you used today to-day had a handle made from sugar holds no more. For many plasty dishes don't hurt when they land on the target because of their light weight. On top of that they won t break and are also too colorful to throw around. Any angry wife will think twice before she begins to lay down a barrage with such ammunition. am-munition. Many of the war plants constructed, construct-ed, and in the process of construction construc-tion today, have no windows. All artificial lighting and air-conditioning takes care of what nature used kana - to consider her job. Glass bricks that let the health rays of the sun through, but prevent vision, now take the place of windows. Those who aren't "up on" their knowledge of what is going on in the world of substitutes still say something to the effect that "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." But there are glass houses today, with more in the offing, off-ing, that wouldn't be in the least affected by anyone who might want to throw some stones at them. Even some good, solid glass bricks wouldn't cause them any damage. Statements from scientists busy working in laboratories far Into the night in all the free United Nations have hinted that what has been seen so far in plastics, is nothing compared to what is to come. One spokesman spokes-man stated that by October, 1943, synthetic production will be sufficient to provide the nation's na-tion's military needs. As you look about and see the hundreds, hun-dreds, thousands, of articles of everyday ev-eryday commonplace variety, you automatically begin to ask yourself, after fully realizing the significance of the substitution era you are in, whether that article, or this article ' Often you hear the statement that possibly, because of the nation's all-out all-out war and deathdealing on the Axis, most of its natural resources such as oil, coal, iron ore, will be used up. But from the great strides taken by industries making substitute substi-tute synthetics and plastics, it isn't far-fetched to suggest that maybe there will be no need for the present natural resources in years to come. At least, not as necessary as today. Miss and Mrs. America have found that many synthetic products prod-ucts are clothing them just as well as when they could buy all the silk they wanted from Japan. Scientists state that it is quite possible that every bit of clothing cloth-ing you will be wearing to the not too far distance will be synthetically syn-thetically made. Maybe four or five of the pieces of clothing you own today are synthetically made, and yet you never realized real-ized it. Household furnishings, from glass fireplaces to dishes, from dressers to stoves are now being made from synthetic materials. The old gag about the errant husband hiding all the dishes before facing his wife probably having some strategic, or scarce material could not be substituted sub-stituted by a plastic. More than likely like-ly in the months to come you won't be surprised when that article appears ap-pears in its plastic dress. Scientists have tagged the millions of years in ancient man's past as belonging to certain periods as he slowly developed from the brute stage. Then there were the various ages, of stone, wood and iron. The astounding use of steel, brought about by quicker, more efficient production pro-duction methods, gave that period of development in the U. S. the title The Steel Age. You wouldn't be surprised, would you, if after this war is over and won, the present days, and then, would be appropriately titled the Plastic Period, or the Synthetic Era? |
