Word: mason
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Officers of the Club are Mason W. Gross 3G., president; and Gladys Collins, Radcliffe, secretary. Gross is a graduate of the University of Cambridge...
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...
...first it was thought that the pulp could be made into paper but insulating board soon promised a better use. Backed by a group of Wisconsin lumbermen, Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present...
Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
...born on June 23, 1894, the same day that the then Duchess of York gave birth to the now Edward VIII; 2) he was the son of a onetime Democratic Congressman; 3) he was a pre-Repeal Dry; 4) he weighed 200 lb.; 5) he was an Elk, Mason, Moose, Odd Fellow, Shriner, Legionary; 6) his favorite expression was "By Golly"; 7) he was a tireless and sometime tiring speaker; 8) his wife, Clara, played the harp. But all these things combined were outweighed by the fact that rich & radical Senator Couzens had appeared to love the New Deal...