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Hammond and Little River Redwood Co. Ltd. starts business with assets of some $60.000,000. with 3,500 employes and an annual payroll of over $6.500.000. Redwood is a soft, workable wood much like cedar and cypress. It has no resin or pitch, burns slowly, hence is favored by homebuilders. It is hardy, will neither rot nor warp. In addition to sales to U. S. consumers, the new company will push exports, especially to tropical countries. For, unlike most lumber, redwood is not relished by white ants...
Another new product is Zalmite, named for Zalmon Simmons, president of Simmons Co. (beds). Similar to Bakelite, this new synthetic resin will take a high gloss, will make strong, tough beds which can be stamped out by single clips of ponderous machines. Carefully guarded is the secret process by which this Zalmite is made. Zalmon Simmons when questioned, facetiously replies that it consists of "peanut shells and burlap bags...
Durium is the recent invention of Dr. Hal Trueman Beans, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records...
...Hendrik Baekeland, 65, knew tropical oils and resins. He worked with formaldehyde and phenol until he created a new kind of resin. He called it Bakelite...
Dragon's blood. Prized in varnishes, pharmacy, 12,034 lbs. of dragon's blood were imported in 1911; 58,000 lbs. in 1923. As not everyone knows, dragon's blood is a red resin oozing from the ripe fruit of East Indian, Moluccan, Siamese palms...