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...valued at $1,750,000,000. In the early days, lumber mills customarily burned off waste or dumped it in nearby rivers, polluting them. Weyerhaeuser, spurred by the New Deal's emphasis on conservation, looked for ways to use waste. Over the years, it found a process to bleach fir pulp white to make it suitable for better-grade papermaking, developed paperboard that will take color printing and a polyethylene coating to replace wax on milk cartons. Aside from its supertrees, Weyerhaeuser's most intensive research is aimed at finding more uses for bark, which represents...
Clean Cut. In Vineland, N. J., a disorderly-conduct charge against Jose Antonio Montes, 26, was dropped after his wife testified that she still loved him in spite of the fact that he had bashed her with a bottle of bleach...
...Saturating a sponge with a powerful bleach to prove how one cleanser leaves a stained sink sparkling white, while competing brands leave black smudges...
...late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed Europe as Fugger linen left to bleach in the sun once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in the Tyrol, exporting textiles, metal and salt to lands beyond the seas, bringing back rare spices, furs and fruit. Almost one-third of Augsburg's 34,000 people were employed by the Fuggers, and kings and emperors knocked on Jakob's door for funds to wage...
...prevents perspiration odors from contaminating clothing was put on the market by American Cyanamid Co., will appear on Van Heusen's spring-line shirts. Applied to a textile, Cyana causes no change in the fabric's color or feel, remains effective even after 50 washings (unless chlorine bleach is used...