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Beef Chuck
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Boneless,
US DA Good
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Chuck
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.59
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Steak
Loin Cut,
USDA Good
1.69
Beef Rib
Eve Steak
USDA Good
2.39
Porte Loin Rib Chops
1.47
lb.
Beef Chuck
Roast
7-Bone,
USDA Good
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EMijliced Bacon
95 llb
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Avocados.,
Florida, large.
Tangerines,
1st of season.
Rath Breakfast Sausage
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4 lbs.
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Italian
Dressing
16 oz.
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Whipped
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9 oz .
45
Nabisco
Cookie Break
Vanilla.
Cookies.
jjis oz.
FM Pineapple
Chunk,
crushed
or sliced
^20 oz
each
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Cheese
Cake Mix
1«. oz.
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FM Evaporated Mashed
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36 oz.
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5 oz.
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THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1977
Saving gas
by bubble, toil
and trouble
United Press International
NEW YORK — The car you buy
in 1985 will have to weigh nearly
2,000 pounds less than pre-1973
models in order to meet the gov
ernment’s edict of 17.5 miles to the
gallon, and Detroit is counting on
air bubbles to help.
The auto makers already have
begun the swing to smaller, lighter
autos. General Motors has taken
nearly 1,000 pounds off the average
weight of its full-size models;
Chrysler estimates it has shaved an
average of 300 pounds off its entire
line.
The weight saving is being ac
complished in many ways, with a
big contribution coming from high-
strength, comparatively low-density
plastics being substituted for metals
to lighten such auto parts as gas
tanks’ front end panels, hoods,
roofs, doors, instrument panels and
seat frames. Plastic drive shafts and
axle housings, as well as parts for
engine, transmission and electrical
systems are planned.
Even lighter plastics are needed,
however, and this is where the air
bubbles come in — tiny, low-
density, hollow glass bubbles, called
microspheres, developed by 3M
company.
While air bubbles in a metal cast
ing or forging invite disastrous wear
and breakage, plastics can be air-
bubbled without loss of strength.
According to 3M, adding eight per
cent of the hollow glass beads to the
plastic mix produces a 30 percent
reduction in weight. This single
item will save only about one tankful
of fuel over the five-year life of a ear
but, multiplied by the many mil
lions of cars on the roads, it makes
the potential fuel saving significant.
Accordng to 3M, the value of the
microscopic hollow balls in plastic
mixes was discovered several years
ago when they turned up as defec
tive glass beads in the manufacture
of 3M‘S Scotchlite reflective sheet
ing. They spoiled the retro-
reflectivity of the sheeting. Setting
out to prevent their occurrence, 3M
engineers accidentally discovered
their high strength in relation to
weight and their potential useful
ness in other plastic mixes.
This probably wasn’t a big sur
prise. Hollow glass spheres have
had many uses almost since the be
ginning of the glass industry.
Fishermen have used millions of
them, for example, to float nets be
cause they are strong and don’t be
come waterlogged like cork floats.
So the 3.M engineers set to work
to make the hollow glass beads in
tentionally in a number of sizes and
densities.'
Their use in sheet molding com
pound that goes into many parts of
automobiles may be just the begin
ning of the use of these air bubbled
plastics, 3M stud. They have a low
heat transfer rate so they appear to
be especially suited for insulating
vessels to handle such substances as
liquid nitrogen, which liquifies at
325 below zero, and liquid oxygen.
But their use to save weight and
fuel in vehicles already is significant
and revolutionary. Until the hollow
beads were studied and improved
the very idea of an air bubble get
ting into a plastic mix horrified
chemists and engineers.
Allergy to mate
creates dilemma
for young couple
United Press International
YORK, England — Pity Janette
Tate. She’s allergic to cats, dogs,
horses, dust , grass, pollen, feath
ers, some kinds of flowers — and
her husband.
Mrs. Tate, a 21-year-old
dressmaker, wheezes and itches
during close contact with people.
When her husband kisses her, she
tends to break out in red blotches
around her mouth.
Allergy specialists at York District
Hospital said her case was unusual
but not unique and that injections
and pills should help her.
‘The more people there are
around me, the greater the discom
fort,” Mrs. Tate said. “I get blotchy,
start to itch and feel generally ill. It
is ruining my social life. ”
But the person she feels most
sorry for is her husband Steve.
“We’ve been married 2Vfe years
and even now kissing can be a prob
lem for us,” she said.
“If it’s too passionate, the area
around my mouth gets bright red
and can stay like that for some time.
It is so embarrassing to know that I
can’t kiss my husband properly
without my friends knowing about
it.”
Steve, 23, said, “It’s a difficult
situation but I try to be understand
ing. I’m only human but, as Janette
says, that’s the problem.”
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