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...barns disappear, big lumber companies are rough-sawing plywood and mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...
...stroke; in Merrickville, Ont. A 6-ft., 200-lb. bear of a man whose tastes ran to torpedo-sized cigars, buffalo-skin coats and liquor, U.S.-born McLean began as a water boy for a railroad construction company, went on to gross $400 million by damming the Abitibi River, pushing railroads to remote Canadian towns, helping link the Catskill watershed to New York City...
...soon as he could toddle, played organized hockey (for boys up to 15) when he was 9, was a star player in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association when he was 12. He got his high-school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. After his team won the Allan Cup, Canada...
Many a publisher thinks that the paper industry is passing along not legitimate costs but costs of bad management. Newsprint financing has always been optimistic to the point of exultation. Big Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Ltd. of Canada once had 21 issues of bonds, notes and purchase-money obligations and an immense number of preferred stock issues. Between 1928 and 1930 it bought five other paper companies and went into the power business seriously. It is now in receivership. Even International, which made $5,000,000 in 1936, had to recapitalize last year so its stockholders could be paid "some...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...