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Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

The article offers information on several products including the Cutlas plastic dishes from Reichhold Chemicals Inc. and Brookpark Inc., the Digital Telemetering Register (DTR), a device for counting pulses, from General Electric Co., and the TracStar rear axle suspension system from National Castings Co.

Presents several letters to the editor. Excerpt of a letter from an army nurse in the Philippines about the emotions of soldiers fighting in the World War II; Praise of the special supplement of the November 27, 1945 issue of the journal on prosperity and how to achieve it; Specifications for dinnerware for a believer in modern design; Requests for letters, papers and documents related to U.S. labor leader Eugene Victor Debs.

The article focuses on the kitchen table and dinette set J.C. Higgins Nook from Ideal Steel.

This article presents information on the glassware products from Corning Glass Works of New York. It explains that the company has developed a new material called Pyroceram which is suitable for non-electric housewares. The company's latest electric percolator and skillet are expected to increase the sales of the company which is estimated to reach 25 million dollars in 1960.

The internationalists who dictate the latest mode in design and architecture have declared against painted flowers of any sort, and that goes for dishes too. The man who started all this, as much as anyone did, was the Austrian Adolf Loos, though his viewpoint differed from that of the internationalists. It was a matter of taste. To the man of the Renaissance, so declared Loos, there was nothing repugnant about eating his elaborately ornamented peacocks, pheasants, and pastry castles from a dish on which was portrayed a whole battle of the Amazons. But the modern man prefers straight beefsteak; he wants none of these "stuffed carcasses"; he wants the material itself.

The article discusses the move by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to abandon the ceiling of silver price. In May 1967, the Treasury stopped the silver to all except the legitimate U.S. business users due to dwindling of the silver stock. Inspite of the prohibition on melting U.S. coins it was feared that higher prices would prompt hoarders to use the old silver coins. International Silver Co. posted a hike of 25 percent on its sterling flatware and hollow-ware items.