Glass fiber laminate aims to revolutionize aircraft planes
A wartime aviation report discusses using glass fiber laminates in aircraft skins and fuselages to reduce weight and increase strength. Tests at Wright Field show glass fibers laminated with wood and rayon-like materials offer high strength-to-weight ratios. Researchers, including Pheinfrank, note potential for improved airframes though processes remain experimental and weathering effects unsettled.
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Tory
Wright Field
Army
Pheinfrank
New Copolymer Resins Cut Curing Time For Parts
Orson Wellesian style work leads to copolymer resins that cure without high pressure. Molded parts can be finished in hours at 200 degrees F under vacuum, with lab aiming to reduce time further. Natural fiber compression enables full strength without high pressure, opening new vistas for the glass plane. Agricultural note: plant forage crops like grain sorghums and sweet sorghums for hay, silage, and grazing. soybeans and cowpeas advised. Trinidad island noted for sugar cacao crops and asphalt from pitch lake.
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Orson
Auburn Alg
J. C. Lowery
Chilean Spy Chaser Warns Of Nazis In Postwar World
SANTIAGO Chile AP The man who built Chile's Department 50 an famed anti espionage unit warns democracies to guard against a Nazi resurgence after the war Hernan Barros Bianchi 33 led raids that helped dismantle a major German espionage ring In Chile his agency aided evidence in Cuba and shifted public opinion from neutrality to anti Nazi policy leading to later diplomatic breaks with the Axis The unit was named for its extension 50 on the investigation dept switchboard
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Santiago
Chile
Department 50
Hernan Barros Bianchi
Luning
Havana
Cuba
Axis
Investigation Department
Proper timing for cutting legume hay guide
Legume hay quality improves with timely cutting. Alfalfa should be cut when one tenth to one fourth in bloom or when new shoots start at the base. Annual lespedeza at full bloom. Soybeans cut when pods are half filled.
OPA Promises Timely Cotton Goods Price Clarification
The Office of Price Administration will inform consumers how much higher prices on shirts dresses sheets and pillowcases will be under cotton textile price increases. About one third of cotton fabric output will carry higher mill prices though final impact on cost of living may not be substantial. Bowles expects some increases to be passed to consumers while others may be absorbed. ceilings on each item will be announced this week under the Bankhead amendment.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
OFA
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Evacuation Nurses Rush Wounded Yanks Back To Safety
Aerial evacuation detail transports two dozen infantry patients to England aboard a Douglas transport. Nurse Billie Rogers Brunette, second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, commands the mission from the airborne hospital unit. The article highlights forward air evacuation as faster, safer care, and notes women’s roles in the Army.
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Gladwin
Bill AP
USAAF
Irish Sea
New York
Bille Rogers Ron
Manuel
Billie
Uncle Sam
England
Army Nurse Corps
U. S
De Forest Plans Mexico Laboratory Move
Mexico City reports that inventor Lee De Forest, 70, will relocate his research lab from Los Angeles to Mexico City. He intends to focus on commercial development of radio tubes and is also working on a ground speed indicator for aircraft that would provide accurate speed readings regardless of wind or weather.
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Mexico City
Invertor
Lee DeForest
Poneer ‘Y Mureleas
Bes Research Laboratory
Los Angeles
Grr
DeForest Witl
Blind Woman Opens War Workers Eyes in Syracuse
Mrs Lillian Fo Scott runs an awakening service for workers in Syracuse New York using four telephones day and night to alert and inform colleagues. Her schedule is organized in Braille making the service accessible to blind callers and readers.
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Syracuse. N.Y
Lillian Fo Scott
Woman reports home fire while atwar plant job
AP dispatch reports a Kansas City woman called the fire department claiming a blaze at her home while she remained at a plant job. Fire units alerted two police cars which arrived quickly finding the fire contained yet ongoing under a roast.
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Kansas City
Fire Department
Aerial Nurses Work Under Fire in Evacuation Flights
Planes used to drop paratroopers tow gliders and haul supplies cannot bear red crosses, so they rely on dawn flights and stealth. Aerial nurses, many former hostesses and all nurses, train at Bowman Field Kentucky, then ferry wounded soldiers between hospitals in the United States, each with a surgical technician partner at T-3 rating.
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Air Force School of Aerial Evacuation
Bowman Field
Louisville
United States
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