Name that fibre rayon and its colourful naming tale
The article recounts how the fibre rayon, once called artificial silk, earned its name from a committee contest won by the suggestion to “shed a ray of light.” It notes rayon’s status as the first man made fibre, its viscose form dominates production, and Canada’s role as a producer, with future developments promised.
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Herman Blum
United States
Blum
Thomas Edison
Kenneth Lord
Canada
The Tree as World’s Great Supplier and Mystery
The piece extols trees as far more than lumber and fuel, highlighting cellulose derivatives and lignin as sources for plastics, inks, detergents, vanillin, and more. It notes wood fibers create by products like wood-yeast fodder and cites animals’ diets and global forests’ potential to ease food shortages.
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Sweden
Prisons May Disappear This Century Says Chicago Professor
A University of Chicago professor predicts prisons as currently known could vanish this century. He defines prisons as large walled institutions holding many adults long term to deter crime. He warns progressive treatment could boost crime and shift power as criminals may outnumber the law abiding.
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University of Chicago
Dallas Morning News
Canadian Farm Cash Income Sets 1964 Record
Canadian farmers earned a record 3 455.6 million dollars in 1964 from farming operations, an 85 percent rise from 1963. Marketings of wheat drove the surge, with cattle hogs dairy products fruits vegetables potatoes barley and oilseed crops also contributing. Livestock product sales totaled 1 2530 million, up only slightly from 1963, while poultry tobacco and oats declined. Marketings of cattle calves and prices reached 173.2 million versus 186.9 million the prior year.
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CBS
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Mail to Anne Adams Patterns in Toronto asks for a money order or coins. The note emphasizes no stamps or cheques and provides a postal address at Front Street West.
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Anne Adams
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Front ST. W
Toronto
Ontario
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