Word: teak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professionals to prepare for, an adventure toward the equator. If the Japanese were to accomplish their much-vaunted New Order in this area, U. S. economy might be severely dislocated. Materials for a range of products all the way from tires to electric-light filaments, from tea to teak, from tin for canning to quinine for malaria, would become drastically scarce in the U. S. until substitutes could be produced in sufficient quantities. What the U. S. can do about it is limited by the fact that the East Indies lie some 2,000 miles outside the arc of effective...
...stuff is ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...