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...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...
Like their descendants for 30 centuries, those early Egyptians were dark with the thought of death, and of the perilous journey to the other world. Commoners had to travel light, but Queen Mereneith got a bang-up traveling outfit. Her body was rubbed with resin, wrapped in cloth strips with the arms outside (not strapped to the side, as in later mummies) and placed in a wooden sarcophagus. In the walls of the tomb, brightly painted like a palace interior, were false doors through which her soul could escape. She had all the furniture she might need, and plenty...
Knife & Corn. The Maya, he says, were remote cousins of the Inca, the Iroquois and the Eskimo. Squat, copper-colored, often cross-eyed (admiring crossed eyes, they hung beads of resin before the eyes of their infants to induce a squint), they were wise, brilliant, cruel...
Then she fired up the stove, crammed Faustina into several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...human heart in the same downy bed. "If we build a network of electric power," cries Hero Telegin on the last page, ". . . America can watch our smoke!" "Yes," cries Heroine Dasha, "we'll live in a log cabin with large windows, beautifully clean, with pearls of resin coming out of the wood. In the winter we'll have a huge fire flaming on the hearth...