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Until Briggs and I bought the Delac, Daniel was hardly a substantial thing. Gay and he were the shadowed whispers of 4 a.m. arguments, heard across the 3-4 inch thick fiberboard that separates our kitchens. But we bought the Delac and she glows in the dark and Daniel was sky-high and wandering into our shack chanting, "Fried potatoes, Fried potatoes, Fried onions...," spuming beer down over his chin like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like...
...machines that munch money, then pound the shredded paper into compact packages. The first pulverizers will probably be installed in the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank in about six months. Within five years, says Treasury, all of America's discarded dollars may be recycled into such products as plastics, fiberboard and roofing material. One proposed scheme-using shredded money for building insulation -would give householders the happy illusion of being literally surrounded by millions of greenbacks...
Bubbles & Salts. There are two conventional ways of fireproofing wood and wood products, including paper and fiberboard. One is to coat them thickly with paint that releases carbon dioxide when heated and forms a layer of protective bubbles. This process serves satisfactorily for mild fires, but the bubble layer cannot resist intense or prolonged heat. The other system is to impregnate wood with various salts, but this weakens the wood and adds as much as 25% to its weight...
...trying to make Salvinia a valuable local crop; if ways can be found to harvest it cheaply, it might prove to be acceptable cattle feed, and protein extracted from its leaves might be good food for humans. One Rhodesian industrialist claims that dried, compressed Salvinia might make fine fiberboard. But none of these schemes are working yet, and the little green fern remains the victor...
Inside the tinderbox building one boy woke as the flames rolled across the fiberboard ceiling, and cried out the alarm. Flinging themselves against the windows, some of the youngsters slashed their heads and arms on broken glass, tore frantically at the "escape-proof" steel mesh between them and safety. While others pushed at him in terror, Charley Meadows, 16-year-old night sergeant for the inmates, at last broke through one window guard, and another gave way to the boys' desperate strength. Through the two openings, 48 escaped. By the time the fire trucks arrived, the building had caved...