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Why do shirts burst? Why do white clotha come back from the inundry yellow? Why did your umbrella break out in white spots? The problem of what happens to the thing you buy, once you begin to use them, is interesting sclonce now for the first time. In on In unique laboratory, perched the roof of a famous West End store these are some of the activi tica of scientists at the moment:

Bursting bite of shirt.

Shrinking socks in the wash. Making gravy stains glow phos- phorescent bluc.

Scoing what "sunlight" can do to "colour-fast" fabrics on a foggy afternoon.

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INHABITANTS OF IRAQ 6,000 YEARS AGO

An expedition under the auspices of the British Museum has leit London fn an effort to trace a lost civilisation which is believed to have existed for some hundreds of years in Northern Irak 6,000 years ago.

over

The expedition will be under the direction of Mr. M. E. Mal- lowan, who assisted Dr. Campbell Thompson in last year's excava tions at Nineveh. Mr. Malkowan's wife, Miss Agatha Christic, the novelist; is accompanying the ex- pedition.

Sir Edgar Bonham-Carler, Chair- man of the Executive Committee of the British Sachool of Archao- jogy in Irak, stated to a Press re- presentative that the expeditios, is to excavate a prehistoric site at Arpachiyah, near Nineveh, where it is hoped to find ovidence of a lost civilisation which existed be fore the rise of Ur.

"However good a store may be," the head of the laboratory told a Press representative "it gets complaints occasionally about the one article in 10,000 that did not

Dr. Campbell Thompson's work live up to its name. Formerly the salesman's only reply to the in- last year revealed relics of a pre- dignant purchaser would be, I historie people who were skilled don't understand how it happened.'in the making of decorative pot- Now we and one or two other tery. Similar pottery had been stores that are starting labora- found among the mounds near tories can ask for the article back Arpachiyah.

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whether the article really had a

flaw. Look at this, for Instance." UPSIDE DOWN FLYING

He produced a pair of socks marked "Unshrinkable." One would fit boy of ten, the other would be too small for a newly- born child. "I shrank that small one myself, just by washing it in soap and hot water. Obviously, the socks had no right to be sold as unshrinkable at all.".

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overhead flying upside down. Strange instruments lay around Peasants enjoying their Sunday the laboratory. One, he explain- festivities in the taverns adjacent ed, was for dropping 20 dropa a to the golf course also noticed minute on the same spot on a piece the phenomenon-some of them, по little per- of waterproof cloth. "If the third it is said, with drop soaks through. the cloth turbation. They were relieved to would be useless. But if it stayed learn later in the day, however, dry till the fourth or fifth drop, it that what they saw was in ac- Would be satisfactory. Actually, cordance with facts.

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Nearby stood the rack on which aerobatic aviator. Captain Raffaele are Colncicchi, attempting and easily hundreds of pieces of cloth torn to ribbons, while a dial marks beating the world upside-down the pressure at which they split. dying record. hitherto held by "We have found," the scientist ex-4 Frenchman. Captain Colacicchi plained, "that when people, com- flew upside-down for 421⁄2 minutes previous --almost plain that a cloth is apt to tear easily, a 401b. pall on the machine French record. is generally sufflelent for the job. It is criminal to sell cloth unless it splits on this machine at a much higher figure."

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But the mercury. are lamp is "We burst bits of shirts and so on, too." He clamped a patch of even more useful, for it does two cloth over an orifice, then pumped things at once-blazes all day at thick glycerine up through the 2,500 candle-power on

rifice. The cloth swelled up like loured cloths to see whether sun- light fades them after all, and ja balloon, and suddenly burst, Indicating the fatal pressure on a turns invisible animal stains gauge. "Anything that bursts at phosphorescent blue with under 40b. per square inch is ultra-violet rays it sends through useless."

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