Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Newport Industries, Inc., one of the two principal U. S. companies producing naval stores, reported earnings of $295,117 for 1935, as against $161,619 the year before. This indicated no 1935 boom in the sales of ships' logs, rigging or hardtack but the gradual upswing of a modern and highly unmaritime industry. Newport industries, like its only big competitor, Hercules Powder Co., sells products distilled from the pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules...
...early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this process which Newport and the naval stores division of Hercules Powder have used to- build up the other 20% of the total business, sharing it fairly evenly between them...
...pine oil not from sawdust but from the dead stumps in cut-over Southern timber land-the deader the better. The stumps are either pulled by large wallowing machines or dynamited, depending on the soil and the quality of the stumps. Hercules, which makes dynamite, generally pulls its stumps. Newport, which makes no dynamite, generally blasts them. The stumps are then shredded and steamed. Turpentine and some pine oil are the first distillates, and the residue is treated under pressure with gasoline to extract the rosin and pine...
...When asked whether she had been trying for a record, she replied: "It would be ridiculous to try for a speed record at this time of year, when it is so warm and muggy. I was just walking for the exercise." From Newport to Boston (73 mi.) her best time was 17 hours. In 1934 she walked 35 miles to call on a friend. Month later, dressed as a Girl Scout, she walked 23 miles to see another. When out for a walk Miss Sears is usually followed by her chauffeur, with Thermos bottle & sandwiches...
Among the teams competing in the races were Dartmouth, the Ski Club Hochgebirge, the Schussverein, the Newport Ski Club, the Nansen Ski Club, and others...