These 'flimsies' were similar to the drums that had been carried in wooden cases on Canastota. The experience of the British soldiers in North Africa—leakage at the seams and a lack of robustness of 'flimsies' when handled—was similar too to the evidence given by R.O.Crockett at the Preliminary Inquiry of 1921. The thin-walled tinplate drum had been the culprit from the outset, making 'case oil' dangerous and unreliable. The 'case oil' trade virtually ceased, in Australia at least, soon after the war's end.
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Preparing a plant for mounting Commensurate with the need to identify the specimen, it is essential to include in a herbarium sheet as much of the plant as possible (e.g., roots, flowers, stems, leaves, seed, and fruit), or at least representative parts of them in the case of large specimens. To preserve their form and colour, plants collected in the field are carefully arranged and spread flat between thin sheets, known as 'flimsies', (equivalent to sheets of newsprint) and dried, usually in a plant press, between blotters or absorbent paper. During the drying process the specimens are retained within their flimsies at all times to minimise damage, and only the thicker, absorbent drying sheets are replaced.
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This was known as a Benghazi Boiler or Benghazi Burner, after the embattled town of Benghazi. Both 4 gallon flimsies and the original 2 gallon cans were replaced by the jerrycan, copied from the much better German design of fuel container. This happened gradually from late 1940, first from captured stock of German jerrycans, then with British-made copies.
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Cards were reusable, meaning players used tokens to mark called numbers. The number of unique cards was limited as randomization had to occur by hand. Before the advent of online Bingo, cards were printed on card stock and, increasingly, disposable paper. While cardboard and paper cards are still in use, Bingo halls are turning more to "flimsies" (also called "throwaways") -- a card inexpensively printed on very thin paper to overcome increasing cost -- and electronic Bingo cards to overcome the difficulty with randomization.
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Audio recordings were distributed in the UK by the use of covermounts in the 1960s by the fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye though the term "covermount" was not in usage at that time. The Private Eye recordings were pressed onto 7" floppy vinyl (known as "flexi- discs" and "flimsies") and mounted on to the front of the magazine. The weekly pop music paper NME issued audio recordings of rock music on similar 7" flexi- discs as covermounts in the 1970s. The covermount practice continued with computer magazines in the early era of home computers.
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The "flimsies," or copies, were picked up by hand by subscribers in the building, and also rushed by messenger boys down to the newsrooms on Newspaper Row in Boston - near modern-day Downtown Crossing. The mimeograph remained in use until the end of 1993. Paper copies were placed in boxes at the front of Room 458 from the time it moved well into the era of email. The full spectrum of players in state government would visit Room 458, to pick up the latest news and press releases.
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Front page of the first issue of The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1889 The first products of Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Journal, were brief news bulletins, nicknamed "flimsies", hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at the stock exchange in the early 1880s. They were later aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. Reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser converted this into The Wall Street Journal, which was published for the first time on July 8, 1889, and began delivery of the Dow Jones & Company News Service via telegraph.Dow Jones & Co. Inc., "Dow Jones History – The Late 1800s" , Retrieved July 25, 2013.
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Crusader tank being refueled from a 4 gallon petrol tin Spitfire being refueled from 4 gallon petrol tins at Luqa, Malta The flimsy, officially known as the Petrol, Oil and Water can, was a World War II fuel container used by the British Army. They held of fuel, which allowed them to be moved by a single person. The flimsy was well known for leaking; when used in the North African Campaign, some flimsies leaked 20%, and in some cases over 50% of the fuel they carried over a journey. One quartermaster reported that his of fuel had been reduced to just 30,000 over the journey - and was informed that even this was a "good effort".
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In practice, several methods would often be combined. For example, if six extra copies of a letter were needed, the fluid-corrected original would be photocopied, but only for the two recipients getting a c.c.; the other four copies, the less-important file copies that stayed in various departments at the office, would be cheaper, hand-erased, less-distinct bond paper copies or even "flimsies" of different colors (tissue papers interleaved with black carbon paper) that were all typed as a "carbon pack" at the same time as the original. In informal applications such as personal letters where low priority was placed on the appearance of the document, or conversely in highly formal applications in which it was important that any corrections be obvious, the backspace key could be used to back up over the error and then overstrike it with hyphens, slashes, Xs, or the like.
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