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...last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 14), continucd last week. At Cambridge, without going into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that...
...Marriner Eccles was altogether too big a financial and industrial figure in the West to step completely out of its business scene when he moved to Washington. He not only had to run Eccles Investment Co., which manages the family fortune, but also the family's large Stoddard Lumber Co., First Security Corp. which owns 26 banks in Utah and Idaho, one in Wyoming, Sego Milk Products (now a subsidiary of Pet), Utah Construction Co. (one of Six Companies, Inc. which helped build Boulder Dam) and several lesser concerns...
Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...Giannini made his first foray into the State of Washington by purchasing some 51% of the stock of the $18,000,000 National Bank of Tacoma. Sellers were National's Chairman Samuel Morley Jackson and the estate of the late Chester Thorne. By amicable agreement, the great lumber family of Weyerhaeuser retains two directors' chairs on the board and local officers will stay in office. Presumably the Tacoma bank will become the centre of Trans america's incipient Washington network...
...kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before the meet was scheduled to start therein. In other respects, Chairman Bingham & committee failed to realize their plans. In a dusty little stadium surrounded by tin cans and scraps of lumber, not quite half the expected capacity crowd of 22.000 turned up for the first day of the meet. Until a drenching thunderstorm chased them home, they sat in puzzled silence watching a succession of events run off about as systematically as the potato races at a church bazaar...