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...board itself-commonly a polyurethane foam strip coated with Fiberglas and glossed with polyester resin-used to be cut to order, depending on the user's height, weight and skill, at a cost of $115 to $150. Now popular demand has brought readymade "pop-out" models for $70, even finish-it-yourself "blanks" that sell for as little as $30 wholesale. This year dealers expect to sell at least 30,000 boards, and rentals are booming...
...field became glutted, they began buying companies that made consumer products out of petrochemicals. Standard Oil of Ohio now owns the Prophylactic Brush Co. (toothbrushes), Phillips Petroleum makes plastic film for the packaging industry, and Continental Oil is preparing to market a detergent that does not clog sewers with foam...
...wrote with characteristic sweetness about Oran. "They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces, which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow beach...
...after years of service, now imports large quantities of it from Hong Kong for his hotels. The wall-to-wall plush carpets on the floors of Hilton hotels actually save money because they make it unnecessary to finish the floor underneath, and the use of Urethane instead of foam rubber in mattresses is cheaper and the sleeping just as good...
When rivers in the U.S. and Europe began to billow with evil-looking foam and tap water frothed like lager beer, the blame was quickly pinned on the synthetic detergents in modern cleaning agents. They wash shirts gleaming white and they make dishes shine, but the bacteria that swarm in soil and sewage do not eat them with the same appetite they have for old-fashioned soap. Rejected by the bugs, the detergents sweep through sewage plants and seep out of septic tanks into the ground water. They are not poisonous, but who likes creamy froth on his drinking...