Word: cardboarded
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...have yet to see someone put down a bag of chips after just taking a single one. Actually, I lie. I did that once, when I found out that the chips were not potato at all, but some sinister science experiment called Terra Chips, where multi-colored strips of cardboard are flash-fried, salted and served as “vegetable chips.” But, in general, you get the picture...
...your Nintendo for too long and the screen started to jerk all over itself. With the album running just over half an hour, the song’s lack of compelling elements is somewhat of a problem. Nonetheless, Kid Koala’s talent is undeniable, and the free cardboard chess set and comic book that come with the album are only icing on the cake. —Marissa R. Robillard
...world's cardboard manufacturers turned out 132 billion sq m of the stuff, enough to cover the state of Louisiana, with a value of almost $95 billion. At whatever rate world GDP grows over the next five years, say, 2.5% annually, cardboard production will almost certainly grow a percentage point or more faster...
...with many other great advances, the invention of the cardboard box was a series of strides. In 1856 the English started to use corrugated paper for sweatband linings in stovepipe hats. Albert L. Jones, a New York City inventor, in 1871 was the first to use corrugated as a packing material, for shipping kerosene-lamp chimneys and other glass. Goodbye sawdust and straw. Over the next two decades cardboard evolved into today's familiar sandwich, a corrugated stuffing between two layers of linerboard...
Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...