Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses, the walls of which will be fortified with "Celotex." This Celotex is a synthetic wood made by the Celotex Co. of New Orleans by shredding sugar-cane residue remaining after the sugar has been abstracted. The shredded cane produces a fibre which is compressed into sheets of sythetic lumber, just as in the lumber regions sawmill wastes are machined and compressed to produce the well known wallboards and sheathings...
...course all lumber substitutes of this sort are not made from wood byproducts. "Sheetrock," made by the U.S. Gypsum Co. of Chicago, and "Gypsolite" (Universal Gypsum Co., Chicago) are of gypsum suitably treated and squeezed into board-like sheets easily handled by carpenters. They compete as economical alternatives for ordinary lathing and sheathing with "Beaverboard" (Beaver Products Co., Buffalo) and "Linofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.). Architects thoroughly appreciate these...
Died. Louis Franklin Genet, 82, grandson of Edmond Charles ("Citizen") Genet (first Minister sent to the U.S. by the French Republic), who described President Washington as "a weak old man under British influence"; at Leonia, N.J. Mr. Genet, able lumber dealer, retired 30 years...
Compagnie Internationale des Machines Agricoles S. A. (France), Harvester Works (Hamilton. Ont.), International Harvester Co. of Canada, .Ltd., International Harvester Co. m. b. H. (Germany), International Harvester Co. in Latvia, International Harvester Co. in Russia, Plow Works (Hamilton, Ont.), Springfield Spring Co. (Springfield, Ohio), Wisconsin Steel Co. and Wisconsin Lumber...
...Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...