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...responded were a handful of overcoated reporters lugging cameras and the polite directors of the trolley line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures...
...close. The suspension was Spokane's sixth since April 5, brought the total of tied-up deposits to $17,000,000. Receiverships. Two notable companies passed into the hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch...
...your issue of Jan. 20 under the title "Husbandry," there is the statement, "Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard...
...Orland Russell Sweeney developed wallboard-from-cornstalks at Iowa's tax-supported State College. State money went to erect a $150,000 testing plant. The patents, when issued to Dr. Sweeney, thus belonged to Iowa, whose agent Dr. Sweeney was in obtaining them...
...Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar company was formed in Chicago to lease and exercise Iowa's patents...