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...swept thriftily into plastics, glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...
...tight-fitting pressure suit made of elastic cotton-rayon knit material has been developed at Duke University for victims of low blood pressure who are in danger of keeling over when they get out of bed or stand up. It keeps blood from pooling in the abdomen and legs...
Teen-agers are still going steady with cotton, despite increasing competition from nylon, rayon and other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton...
Funk joined duPont in 1932 and since then has served in various supervisory capacities in rayon and nylon manufacturing facilities. MacVeagh served in advisory positions to the Federal Government in World...
...RAYON BOOM goes on despite hot competition from Dacron, nylon, etc. Rayon production last year topped 972,800,000 Ibs., a 10% jump over 1953's previous record and 9% more than all other man-made fibers combined. Rayon's biggest new customers: tiremakers, manufacturers of industrial hose, belting and carpets...