Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...
...market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product is a laminated plastic, pressed innumerable sheets of thin Presdwood. An addition to the Laurel, Miss, plant to turn out this plastic will be ready early next year...
...from Laurel, however, is the Masonite ownership. Majority of the stock is still in the hands of the original Wisconsin lumbermen who backed the inventor. These include such potent paper and lumber names as Clark Everest (Marathon Paper Mills Co.), Aytch P. Woodson (B. C. Spruce Mills), Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey, dean of Wisconsin lumbermen. Biggest stockholder at last report (33,000 shares) is President Ben Alexander...
With this in mind the laurel for the afternoon should probably be awarded to President Angell of Yale...
...days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original Herbert tunes, rearranged the plot to suit Comics Laurel & Hardy...