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...uses for bark, which represents 15% of each tree. It has developed a hydraulic debarker that bombards mill logs with water and leaves them peeled like bananas. Recovered bark chips, once burned for fuel, are now processed as medicine, vanillin, insulation, soil conditioners, reinforcement for polyester plastics, and mud thinner for oil-well drilling. Says Vice President for Wood Products George H. Weyerhaeuser, "You'd almost think that lumber is the byproduct now." Lumber is almost that. Ten years ago lumber and pulp represented 80% of Weyerhaeuser's output. Today they represent 41%-and the remainder...
...caused by charged particles from the excited sun tangling with the top of the earth's atmosphere. There will be no magnetic storms to jam long-range communication, but radio amateurs will have to switch to lower frequencies because the ionized layers in the upper atmosphere will be thinner, letting the hams' shorter wave lengths escape into space...
Mannered Genius. But the error had been pressed upon him. Convinced that Lewis is Vivaldi's nephew, his cult has urged him into thinner and thinner air since he appeared with his three fellow ascetics in the first Modern Jazz Quartet performances ten years ago. In pursuit of something that sounded agreeably like jazz from the 16th century, Lewis soon became one of the half-dozen important jazz composers, writing such a mannered form of music that his compositions set a whole new tone...
Last week the butter was being spread a little thinner. Since March, steel production has slipped from 82% of capacity to 55%, and dozens of steel furnaces have been banked from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. This week U.S. steelmakers will pour barely 1,600,000 tons-just about what Russia will produce...
...have to worry about changing their wings in flight. The straight, thick wings that got their ships off the ground served equally well in low-speed flight. But as airplanes became faster, their wings had to be thinned down and shortened to cut drag at high speed. And since thinner, shorter wings have less lift, the new fast planes needed longer runs to get them off the ground. When airplane speeds were boosted by jet engines, designers resorted to swept-back wings, which function better up near and above the speed of sound...