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...Free Traders. Still another potential profit area lies in silvichemicals, i.e., chemicals derived from wood. One big hope: turning lignin -the noncellulose element that constitutes 25% of a tree -into derivatives ranging from ersatz foam rubber to a substitute for carbon black in tires. Says West Virginia's research-minded Chairman David Luke: "The paper industry today generates some $12 billion in sales a year. If we took advantage of wood chemicals, we could double that- and the materials would be free." Because it forced them to seek new markets, the slump from which they are now emerging...
Mysteriously, Marshall's cadaver contained 15% carbon monoxide. Estimating that the embalming process had removed another 15%, the pathologist figured 30% at the time of death-not enough to be fatal in itself...
...William Pratt, 31. Chicago office manager of Commercial Solvents Corp., the New York firm that sold $5,700,000 worth of anhydrous ammonia to Estes, mainly on credit, hoping to be repaid from his grain-storage income. While no connection with the Estes case was evident, Pratt, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in his car, left a bizarre note: "The bells even toll when a rat dies. The burden of guilt is on my shoulders...
...Smallpox Paper." Standard's success still rests squarely on a half-century-old invention by a Dayton tinkerer named Theodore Schirmer. Watching retail clerks make out sales slips one after another on a hand-cranked device, Schirmer noticed that the carbon copies often slipped out of alignment. He solved the problem by ringing both ends of the machine's rollers with sprockets that engaged holes punched along the margins of the forms and thus held all copies firmly in line...
...been drilled before, but the process is difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon of diamond, which has the highest vaporizing temperature of any solid substance, laser light produces a blue puff of vapor that is close to 18,000° F., about twice the temperature of the sun's white-hot surface...