pictorial review of events in business and industry produced each week by the national association of manufactur here's a scene that has long since ceased causing any surprise the womenfolk washing dishes made of plastic dishes that bounce when they drop to the floor hard to realize it but it was only ten years ago that the first pound plastic was sold and it was sold by arnold marginally less at that time a salesman for monsanto and now the owner of his own firm the rogers plastic corporation of west warren massachusetts a ten year old industry a six year old firm is a veteran already rogers is a leader in the production of household whereas which are molded on machines like this under a method called jet injection the molt production line and occasionally does we see coasters being packed for shipment and in a matter of minutes the line could be producing water tumblers automate all sliders red boxes or pitchers it's this rapid adaptability together with the attractiveness usefulness and low cost of the plastic itself that has made this in this great one of the fastest growing in the nation's history the future of plastics is bright indeed and rogers is a company that intends to stay out in front broadening still further its already extensive line of products made of plastic hard to believe but here's a factory in new york city that can turn out five thousand tanks and ten thousand jet planes in a single day working with classified blueprints from the defense department the common metal products company can produce five thousand ships twenty five hundred trucks and five hundred artillery pieces at the very same time you haven't already guessed the tanks planes ships and guns produced here are miniatures but they aren't taught as and they are perfect scale models made from the blueprints of the real things that can be no mistake about any details for these miniature instruments of warfare will serve an important they will be used in training our fighting men to distinguish friendly ships planes and tanks from those of the enemy also  helping the high bred to recreate the picture of a military situation many miles away giving them a three dimensional view of an operation a national plastic products company plant that old and in maryland a firm that plays one specialized part in the manufacture of a product that makes life a little easier and better for all of us arriving at the olden factory daily come tons of light plastic powder called zahran made from petroleum and brine pumped out of deep underground lakes in the south chemical company produce the saran powder now national plastic products will further process and add pigment and extrude or spin it into a fiber that can be woven like cloth here national plastic products will not do the weaving it sticks to the job it does best leaving earlier and later phases of the manufacturing operation to firms that have the expert know how in those fields out of the executers come heavy strands of plastic which cooled in water and drawn out become thinner and it has uses that which thread could never be put now it moves on to another city in another state for the next step in its development lou my division of the tick of the nine you factor in cooperation of georgia is the company into products that will be used by the consumer first some of the fiber is rewound onto bobbins that will settle back and forth in the weaving to make the cross strands other schools are put on a cre about once every two days the roll of saran thread for the war must be renewed and a mechanical tire joins every strand in only a few minutes here for example but a company like you might is able to take advantage of knowledge gained in generations of practice in allied field once everything is ready the loom goes into action and the end product not cloth as you think of it in this case although elsewhere in the plant the plastic is woven into fabric for a variety of uses this is insects green cloth with some surprising advantages over the usual screening materials completely rust then corrosion resistant it requires no protective painting since its color is built in strong light and top the armed forces preferred it above all others during world war two especially in the tropics  even when used in areas right near the water it's doing a standout job for the american homeowner the communists would like to see inflation cheap on our money until it isn't worth the paper it's printed on cheap money means less value for our savings and insurance that's why the communist would like to see cheap money create economic chaos but we can inflation and strengthen our dollars if each of us will avoid borrowing to buy unnecessary things by saving all we can not wasting materials and by supporting policies which increase our industrial productivity and by insisting our government does like line a sound dollar means a strong and