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...Orland Russell Sweeney developed wallboard-from-cornstalks at Iowa's tax-supported State College. State money went to erect a $150,000 testing plant. The patents, when issued to Dr. Sweeney, thus belonged to Iowa, whose agent Dr. Sweeney was in obtaining them...
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...
...rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source of food alone but as a vast storehouse of potential petroleum, paint, tiles, silk, synthetic lumber. Let him turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there another such trap for solar power. This energy is stored in chemical compounds; not lost. True to the laws...
...list of cripples that are rounding into shape and will be ready to face Harvard on Saturday was further increased today by the return of Orland Smith, 200 pound tackle. Smith has been out of harness since October 16. His return will permit Edgar McCrillis, another 200-pounder, to return to his regular position at left guard. John Getz, the made-over guard, will probably start the Crimson clash at the pivot berth, a post that he filled capably against Nawley's Dartmouth team two weeks...
First Lieutenant Leslie Orland Tooze, Law '19, was killed in the battle of the Argoone on September 28. He had distinguished himself on the field of battle, and the fact that his body was found lying at the farthest point of advance showed that he was leading his men when he fell...