Inventions of the Month

Announced:

P: By FBI: a war-born alloy so magnetic (it can lift 4,000 times its own weight) that FBI plans to use it to fish in rivers and ponds for criminals' discarded weapons and other metallic clues.

P: By a group of manufacturers: barge-like floating iceboxes, fleets of which are to be used in the Pacific, for carrying fresh meat, vegetables, milk, etc. to battlefronts. Each one holds 1,000 tons of food, can make 500 gallons of ice cream a day.

P: By Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: stainless steel stockings for women. They are still only a laboratory curiosity, but major steel producers, taking the project seriously, have made stainless steel threads which they say can be woven into steel stockings as sheer as silk or nylon.

P: By the Army's Air Technical Service Command: a rapid photographic printing paper called "Gasparcolor," which is sensitive to red, green and blue light in a single exposure, should make production of colored prints from colored transparencies easy in home darkrooms.

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