Word: pulpwood
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...
...Falls mill is largely the achievement of Robert Filberg, vice president of the Canadian Western Lumber Co. Throughout his 45 years in the British Columbia timber trade, Filberg always was bothered by the disheartening waste involved in harvesting pulpwood. In 1940, he decided to do something about it. Working with the province's forestry department, he experimented with new methods of logging waste wood and new-type machines to mill it. When the process was perfected, Filberg's company closed a deal with the U.S.-owned Crown Zellerbach Corp. to build the Elk Falls mill. Its success...