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...road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other U. S. railroader except Baltimore & Ohio's venerable ''Uncle Dan" Willard. He is also a pioneer...
Youngson received a prize of $50 for his film entitled "Smoke Dreams," adjudged the best amateur 16 millimeter film submitted. Bruce L. Greiner, of the Law School, was runner-up with a four-reel color film dealing with a lumber camp...
...over 5,000,000 saws and blades a year, does some 75% of the U. S. handsaw business. Its saws & blades vary from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about...
Synthetic Lumber. In recent years many a U. S. researcher has experimented with artificial wood made cheaply from waste agricultural products such as cornstalks, corncobs, straw, hulls, burs. This stuff is ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...
Into the Detroit smithy of Wagon-maker August Charles Fruehauf (rhymes with blew-off) one day in 1915 walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...