Word: balsa
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Kapok's old rivals-cork and balsa wood-are no help. They are just as scarce. But ersatz kapoks are coming from field and factory and, as often happens, may win permanent victories over their prototype. Some of the more promising...
Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Anderson and Prado and two Yale friends of their decided last winter to make the trip "just for the fun of it," and last summer journeyed to Peru, bought a cance, hired a dozen native Indian porters of uncertain origin and disposition, built a number of balsa wood rafts for their provisions, and set out into the interior...
...made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...
...head of the Chemical Foundation to honor U. S. women chemists. Born in Nashville, Mary Pennington took her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, got fellowships there and at Yale, ran the chemistry lab in a women's college, went into public clinical and bacteriological service, headed American Balsa Co.'s research and development division, finally organized her own business. "Dr. Pennington," said her citation, "is ranked among the foremost authorities on the refrigeration and handling of milk, flesh foods, eggs and other perishable commodities. . " . To achieve this distinction she has combined a broad fundamental training in chemistry...