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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Synthetic Lumber. In recent years many a U. S. researcher has experimented with artificial wood made cheaply from waste agricultural products such as cornstalks, corncobs, straw, hulls, burs. This stuff is ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Compounds & Concoctions | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...freaks still parade, the clowns cavort, the chariots race, the elephants lumber, the band blares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greatest Show | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...contracts all over the country (examples: 800 buildings in Louisville, 550 in Cincinnati, 300 in Columbus, Ohio, 75 in Oakland, Calif.), Cleveland Wrecking is having one of the big years of its career, can well look forward to salvage coups like its saving of 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much as $100,000 worth of equipment on a single job, including bulldozers, clam shell buckets, a two-ton steel weight swung from a boom to batter walls and floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Five Rose Wreckers | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...cities, spotted executive offices in five other cities from coast to coast. String-savers on a grand scale, they also bought army goods-everything from McClellan saddles to cots and hospital equipment-opened Army-&-Navy stores to resell them. They wrecked buildings by the thousands, branched into new lumber. In 1928 they incorporated. The company was named Cleveland in honor of Father Rose's home; its technical headquarters were based in Cincinnati because it was an Ohio corporation; its home office stayed in Minneapolis because that was where Louis got his start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SALVAGE: Five Rose Wreckers | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...TIME also might be wronger but not much in stating that "To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand, while they rolled a cigar with the other." I would suggest to son Jimmie that he have a movie made showing such a stunt (if it can be done) and show it in the . . . slot movie machine to be put on the market by Mills-Globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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