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A MAN-MADE HURRICANE CRIED..UNGLE''
Sales come faster when you have a strong, proof-packed story to tell about a product. CECOROLL Steel Roofing gives you just that. Consider the test made at a leading university. CECOROLL was subjected to a man-made tempest created by an aircraft engine rewed up to 145 mph, plus a deluge of water pumped into the air stream. Result: No leaks - no wind damage. Not a single drop of water penetrated the CECOROLL roof at seams or nail holes. A roof of ordinary corrugated steel sheets tested identically leaked before hurricane velocity. What a test! What a sales story! Tell it with confidence. SelI CECOROLL faster for Profits Plus.
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"Character is not made in a crisis-it is onlv exhibited." -Dr. Robert Freeman. * ,. *
"Wood burns because it has the proper stufi in it; and .a man becomes famous Y al" same reason."-Qssfhs.
A great thinker once said: "The most utterly lost of all days is ln+ t" which "or*n?" not laughed."
"The only way human beings can win a war is to preo"1r1 i1."-Qeneral George Marshall.
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"A Communist government is one where they name a street after you one day, and chase you down it the next." (Ctipt.)
"A man who says he is boss in his own house is not to be trusted; he'll probably lie about other things, too." (Anon.) ***
"The road to success is over the rough hill of difficulty. The path to prosperity is through the swamps of sacrifice. If you have decided that you are going to detour, to duck the regular route and reach your goal without honest service and the hardest kind of work, pinch yourself, boyyou're dreaming." (Anon.)
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"As long.as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way-government, society, and even the stars and planets; the only real obstacles to our happiness are wrong thoughts and emotions."-fh91sau.
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"Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest, as on what thou hast already."-Marcus Aurelius. In other words, do not say "My purse is half empty," but say rather, "My purse is half fu11."
There is an old adage ;"J.";", "A silent sage has tess influence than an articulate fool," for truly articulate fools are never backward in spreading their gospel.
The story goes that a rrtan was tried, found insane, and sent to an asylum. The testimony showed that he was saving one dollar bills, he thought they would be worth money again some time.
'1A few men are keeping the waters of the world muddy," said Gus Arriola. Not hard to guess who the few are.
One of the most difficult trees to classify and name was Douglas Fir. One of the earliest botanical scientists to study
BY JACK DIONNE
Western trees was Dr. Archibald Menzies. He found vast forests of these mighty trees growing from California to Canada on the Pacific Coast, and failed to classify them to his own satisfaction. He described the tree as a "false hemlock with a yewJike leaf," and gave it the botanical name of Pseudotsuga Taxifola:.
Then Dr. David OorrgtJr, r"*.* botanist, came from Scotland, and he devoted h'is genius to studying this unusual tree. He was quoted as sayrng that it was like a Fir in the flexibility of its needles, like a Spruce in its habit of bearing cones that hang downward from the twigs, like a Hemlock in the way in which the twigs droop, and tike a Pine in the appearance of the wood itself. So the United States Forest Service sanctioned for this Species the name Douglas Fir in honor of the botanist who worked so hard to classifY-it' *
The late Col. W. B. Greeley, a forester of renown, used to say that an industrial miracle in wood products was the making of rayon. He said: "On one hand is a tank of Viscose, derived from higtr' grade pulp. It has about the color, consistency, and allure of axle grease. As this horrible looking stuff is forced into a vat of fixing liquor, it passes through little whirling thimbles. From these emerge silver filaments, spun before your eyes into the most lustrous, shimmering silk you ever saw. And it is all from woodSouthern Pine or West Coast Hemlock."
A booklet once published by the Crossett Lumber Company, of Arkansas, gave an interesting history of rayon and its manufacture. According to that book, a scientist and chemist named Count Hilaire de Chardonnet gave us rayon, in about the 1870s. He had watched silkworms eat mulberry leaves and then spin their threads of silk, and decided to find out how they did it, and see if it could be duplicatedartificially.
He learned the silkworm's secret. The mulberry leaves inside them became a sticky jelly, and th,is jelly the worms spin into silk through tiny holes called spinnerettes. So he sets out to'try and duplicate the jelly. fle succeeded in making a very good substitute, out of wood pulp. An ingenious device that acts like the silkworm spinnerettes was created, and after the wood pulp had been chemically translated into a gelatinous mass much like that inside the worm, it was forced through mechanical spinnerettes, and shining, beautiful threads were created, and called rayon. And thus one of the most famous and useful of all textile fabrics was born. No wonder Col. Greeley called it "an industrial miracle."
