Word: woode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Williams insecticide, which can be synthesized in the laboratory or extracted from one kind of wood pulp, resembles a hormone found inside the insects themselves. This hormone, discovered more than a decade ago by Dr. Williams, prevents insects from maturing and from proceeding from one normal stage of development to the next in the process called metamorphasis...
Toward $700 Million. Born only ten years ago with the merger of two sleepy sawmill companies, Boise Cascade has become one of the nation's fastest-growing companies by zealous pursuit of ways to make the most of a tree. To utilize waste wood chips and sawdust, Hansberger quickly expanded into pulp and paper production. He added fine paper making by buying Columbia River Paper Co. in 1962, kraft wrapping paper by purchasing Crown Zellerbach's St. Helens paper division in 1964, newsprint and wood-fiber insulation board by picking up Minnesota & Ontario Paper...
...DUANE WOOD WORTH JOHNSON Washington...
...every evening. Even so, some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that dripped into receptacles below, quickly filling them. With enough frames, the Chilean scientists believe...
...opened last week at the East Tennessee State University Museum in Johnson City, Tenn. After this foreign attention, Japan is now coming to recognize him as one of its outstanding etchers and lithographers; inspired by Ikeda, a number of younger Japanese artists, hitherto bored with the tradition of wood-block prints, are turning back to graphics with new interest...