Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...From nursery days, every man garners to himself all manner of sticks and stones to remind him of great days passed and glories hoped for. There are totems for Indians, Ikons for Russians, aviators for Prussians, and St. George for England. And for Boston, a whittled pieces of pine--the sacred...
...which Southern States have 10,000,000 acres. The Chemical Foundation, which he helped establish, gave him $50,000 to carry out his idea. Georgia, where he was born, has given him $40,000, promised $60,000 more. Last week Chemist Herty produced the first significant run of pine paper at his experimental plant in Savannah. The quantity was sufficient for one edition of an average country weekly newspaper...
...world of reforestation and economic possibilities are suggested by this new paper. In the economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that...
...Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis., waited skeptically for Dr. Herty to show that his paper can be used effectively in a full-size newspaper press running at high speed. That he may be able to do so for competitive production may well set the South dreaming of another pine-scented boom...