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Prized & Profitable. Standing, in some cases, over 300 ft. high, redwoods are prized by the public-and profitable to the loggers. Their wood is rotproof, termiteproof and practically weatherproof, nonwarping, retentive of paint and, because of its softness, easy to work. Before the days of cheap, non-corrosive metals, it was widely used for sluice boxes, water tanks, pipelines, pier piles, fences and wine casks. Today, homeowners use it for outdoor terraces and to panel both exteriors and interiors. So well does the wood sell that profits sometimes exceed 25% of total earnings. The Arcata Redwood Co., for instance, made...
Unlike other reinforced plastics which must be built up layer after layer, Scotchply can be worked like wood or molded like metal; it is shatterproof, rotproof, waterproof, can be sawed, drilled, cemented or polished. As production began last week, the company saw a potential market for Scotchply in everything from air frames to auto parts and delicate printed circuits. The one drawback: its current high price of $2 a lb., which the company hopes to cut down with mass production...
Developed by Department of Agriculture chemists, the new "acetylated" cotton looks like the ordinary variety but is chemically treated to increase resistance to rot and mildew. Promised: rotproof cotton awnings, tents, fish nets, food bags...
...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...
...make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past decade, but it is challenged by plastics. The venerable U.S. glass industry, according to George...