Science Is Decisive in a Survival War
A Science Service essay argues war hinges on research, invention, and engineering. It credits U.S. labs and industry for frontline tooling, decries delays, and urges accelerated education, talent searches, and public invention to speed victory and postwar reconstruction.
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Science Service
Opment
National Inventors Council
United States
U. S. Bureau of Mines
U.S. Geological Survey
NDRC
Navy
Science Clubs of America
Westinghouse
Perkin
Hall
Newton
Victory fire hose uses electricity to guard against defects
Akron Ohio officials report a new Victory fire hose by B F Goodrich uses electric plates up to 40000 volts to detect imperfections in the rubber lining. The system halts production at defects, ensuring safety despite lower crude rubber content mandated by War Production Board rules. The hose, labeled war product, seeks to preserve strength with reclaimed rubber and remains below prewar standards.
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Akron
Ohio
B. F. Goodrich Company
William S. Richardson
Industrial Products
War Production Board
Richardson
Sas Wik
Akron Executive
Native Orchids Describe Wild Beauties Versus Expensive Blooms
The piece notes native American orchids growing in woods rival the beauty of costly exotics, appealing to young women who romance them against a shrewdly estimated dollars and cents scale.
Monster Furnaces Plan to Melt Junked Cars in Buffalo
Buffalo report describes 108 foot high furnaces with 12 foot stacks designed to swallow old autos whole and melt them into pig iron. Eight cars per furnace, six machines active, Detroit area demonstration cited. Walter F. Lockwood leads a new company planning six furnaces in Buffalo and ten plants nationwide.
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Monster Furnaces
Science Service
Buffalo
N. Y
Universal Research Corporation
Kenmore
Rochester
United States
Walter F. Lockwood
Concrete Bird Bath The Simple Step by Step Guide
A practical article explains how to build a concrete bird bath in one day using sand cement mix, templates, and wooden rods. It details forming the bowl on a sand mound, curing with water, adding a wire screen, shaping the outer lip, and constructing a matching pedestal with optional iron rods for strength.
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Cemenis
Gardeners and
Science Club
Science Service
Science Service invitation to join club at local outlets
Organization offers guidance on forming a Science Club in shops schools or neighborhoods. Readers can contact the newspaper's Science Service at 1719 N St N W Washington DC for instructions and materials.
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Science Service
N St
N. W
Washington, D. C
Rustic Concrete Fence Posts Ornamental
Instructions for making decorative concrete fence posts without molds. Details cover rolling mesh cores, embedding metal, layering cement mixtures, adding hardware, and finishing for durable, rustic posts suitable for gardens and bird baths.
New Machines and Gadgets in Wartime Inventions
A roundup of homegrown devices from lockpick-like blocks to voice recording over the telephone. Items include a bag filler that holds open sacks, a coal sack adaptor, and a black light flashlight for ore detection. Also noted are synthetic rubber thread for military use, bank hold up protection patents, an easy progressive hobby horse, and sewage sludge gas recovery as a revenue source.
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National Bureau of Standards
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National Academy of Sciences
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National Defense Research Committee
Office of Scientific Research
Devel
U. S
Fortune
Walter S. Landis
American Cyanamid Company
Asia
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Department of Commerce
Lawrence Langner
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