Word: rosin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less lenient was the treatment given Waterman Steamship Corp.'s Warrior, carrying pebble phosphate and rosin out of Mobile, Ala. Bought & paid for by Germany, the phosphate (5,900 tons) and rosin (600 barrels) were confiscated by Britain, ordered sold at public auction. From the Nieuw Amsterdam were taken two German spies (one of whom attempted suicide), 34 German stewards and sailors. The Dutch Government was allowed to take title to 1,500 tons of copper aboard...
...inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post-War inflation his interest in waste rose. Starting with the common knowledge that wood...
...formaldehyde. Furfural may also be produced from such things as corncobs, sunflower seeds and old leaves, but oat hulls are available in large quantities at convenient places and the furfural yield is high. Three big uses for furfural are in plastics, in refining lubricating oils, in purification of wood rosin...
...Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production of 600,000 barrels of turpentine, 2,000,000 barrels of rosin...
They get their rosin, turpentine and pine oil not from sawdust but from the dead stumps in cut-over Southern timber land-the deader the better. The stumps are either pulled by large wallowing machines or dynamited, depending on the soil and the quality of the stumps. Hercules, which makes dynamite, generally pulls its stumps. Newport, which makes no dynamite, generally blasts them. The stumps are then shredded and steamed. Turpentine and some pine oil are the first distillates, and the residue is treated under pressure with gasoline to extract the rosin and pine...