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...Working on her were 1,500 civilians. In the grand salon on the promenade deck, a workman with an acetylene torch cut through the last of four ornamental steel stanchions. So close to him that his back touched them as he worked were piled kapok life preservers, wrapped in tar paper and burlap...
This is the latest chapter in the utilization of lignin-the greatest industrial-waste on earth. In time, chemists believe, it will spawn as many useful derivatives as coal tar and become the basis of a great chemical industry. But so far, in spite of 40 years of head-scratching and an increasing number of derivatives, chemists have found uses for less than .05% of the 3,000,000 tons of lignin available each year in the U.S. and Canada. Yet lignin production goes merrily on, for it must be removed from wood pulp before the pulp is made into...
London was tar black as the war year of 1942 began. The eddying, nearly solid crowd in front of St. Paul's could scarcely see its own faces as it waited for the midnight bells. No threat of an air raid spoiled the holiday, but the spotters, wardens and fire watchers, the steel helmets that the bobbies wore were reminders that London had been bombed, that she will be bombed again...
...Tar Heels: A Portrait of North Carolina-Jonathan Daniels...
Prices hit moderate boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...