Word: balsa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included are many of the properties used in the technicolor film, produced last year, including a hand-painted rubber shovel used in the graveyard murder scene, a balsa wood cane used in a fight sequence, Injun Joe's wig, and one of Bocky Thatcher's costumes...
Through an ingenious packing of balsa wood and "ice cream bags" the weathermen have been able to overcome the main obstacle to such night observations--the very low temperatures at heights of ten miles or more, which, in the absence of the sun, have hitherto frozen instruments hung from the balloon...
...class was limited to models of 30 sq. in. maximum wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still in the air for a new world record in its class...
...lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw, virtually valueless as a fertilizer. has always been a problem. Farmers burn a large percentage of the 50 million tons produced each year. Some is being used (250.000 tons) to produce an insulating board whose heat conductivity is comparable to balsa wood and cork. Also from straw an artificial lumber will soon be produced which will have tensile strength of hickory. The current issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry predicts that this ''straw'' lumber will soon be in plentiful production and use. Thus plains regions, where trees...