Word: barks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relaxing in your room while you listen to a lecture has become a reality due to the current series of Lowell Institute Lectures. Substituting the microphone for the platform bark, the Institute broadcasts eight programs each week over five Boston stations...
This week Weyerhaeuser proudly announced that it has developed products to use tree bark, thus utilize the 12% of a Douglas fir log that was formerly thrown away or burned as sawmill boiler fuel...
...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...
...plant will soon be opened at Longview. Then bark processing and plywood making will be on an assembly-line basis. Mechanical peelers will strip the logs, send the bark to the processing section, the logs to the saws; they will meet again as Silvacon glue and plywood...
Last year, with Phil as executive vice president, the company's gross sales from forest products were $66,271,996, its net income $12,995,478. This year, earnings are "slightly ahead" of last year. Eventually, Phil expects that his new bark byproducts will add $10,000,000 a year to his gross business...