Word: wallboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicopters shuttled wallboard and lumber from the chasm's edge down to the canyon floor, a group of 50 Havasupai near by never once looked toward the landing field. Most were too busy picking through a two-ton load of used clothing dropped into the reservation semiannually...
Youngsters dismantled an abandoned frame building and made a bonfire of its doors, siding and window frames. Booths and tables were ripped from the taverns. Windows were smashed, and merchandise was scattered wildly. Tipsy students wandered into the community hall, maliciously shredding wallboard and vandalizing a soft-drink machine. A car that careened into the bonfire area was attacked and wrecked by 500 students. Ugly fist fights were started. Nearby Hazen's hospital offered first-aid service throughout the night for fallen pugilists...
That most conspicuous waste-paper-is less serious than it looks. Paper that starts as office stationery may be reprocessed several times to reappear as wrapping or wallboard. Some 25% of all paper now derives from this "secondary forest," and there is so much reforestation that 60% more timber is maturing every year than is cut. A new process breaks up old cars into tiny bits and magnetically extracts the steel to produce a 97%-pure scrap, offering a hope that most of the nation's automobile graveyards can eventually be eliminated. Fly ash is converted to make lightweight...
...process gets around this disadvantage by forcing the bromine to attach itself to the wood's lignin, the cement that causes the fibers to stick to each other. The best grades of paper have no lignin, but the types of wood pulp used to make paperboard and wallboard retain enough of it to make Dr. Lewin's process useful...
...manual dexterity and accuracy." A normally accurate, responsible aircraft mechanic may unconsciously rush, through his work, do a slipshod job, if he happens to be working in the neighborhood of a whining jet exhaust. When officials of Aetna Life Insurance Co. cut office noise levels 14.5% by installing acoustic wallboard, they found that typists' errors dropped 29%, machine operators' errors fell 52%, employee turnover decreased 47%, and absenteeism declined...