When the worker, Vesta Stout, saw soldiers struggling to open the boxes, she came up with an idea to seal the boxes with a strong, cloth-based, waterproof tape. Stout wrote a letter to FDR about ...

To weatherproof your windows, try using plastic drop cloth sheeting (often used ... and use either packing tape, masking tape, or duct tape to seal it. Before affixing the plastic, you can seal ...