Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because damp wheat makes musty flour, because damp wood makes warped boards, grain and lumber dealers asked Canada's National Bureau of Research for a quick, cheap way of measuring the moisture of their goods. The Bureau instructed Professor Eli Franklin Burton of Toronto University to work on it; he put one Arnold Pitt, his graduate student, at the task. Last week their invention was perfected...
Student Pitt measured the conductivity of various samples of grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
After that it was easy to design a container, connected with an electric circuit and gauge, in which grain or lumber might rest. Where it took hours by the oven process to grade material, the Burton-Pitt machine takes ten minutes...
...present incumbent, Dr. John R. Mott, the position of General Secretary of the Association has come to be regarded as "most potent lay position in the religious world." Born in Livingston Manor, N. Y., Dr. Mott spent his boyhood in Postville, Iowa. He and his father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful evangelist. Since that time Dr. Mott...
Wood. Lumberman Walter C. Paepoke of Chicago is president of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Corp., largest U. S. hardwood company, a consolidation effected last week, of four southern hardwood companies (Chicago Mill and Lumber Co., Penrod Jurden, R. J. Darnell and Kurz Brothers) and their subsidiaries. Assets: over...