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Custom-Made Trees. The industry's brightest hope for the future, as one lumberman said recently, is in "man's resourcefulness grafted on nature's resources." Sawdust and shavings today are swept thriftily into plastics, glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Magic Forest | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Included in the plans for restoration are a new railing, with a weather vane at each corner, around the now barren top of the building; dormers over the clocks; various pinnacles down the side of the building; and copper sheathing for those portions which are covered by asphalt tile at the present time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contractors Bid on Finished Plans For Renovations of Memorial Hall | 5/23/1956 | See Source »

...achieve the negative, heat is supplied by forcing air over hot-water pipes in the ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children's Mental Hospital | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...subject of Outer Mongolia, was a chance to make a stand, even in principled defiance of the U.S.. and that defiance was a source of satisfaction. In Hong Kong an old Chinese proverb was quoted: "Better to be a broken piece of jade than a whole tile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: New Members Day | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Forty-five steps below Massachusetts Avenue is a world where wind, sun, and week-end rain never penetrate. Row on row of bare bulbs cast their glare on shadowy caverns. The only moisture to reach the tile and litter clings loosely to the windows and roofs of swaying trolley cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forty-Five Steps Down . . . | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

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