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Title: The Forest products laboratory : a decennial record, 1910-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weiss, Howard F Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
Subjects: Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) Wood
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Democrat printing company
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tly therethe same spirit, the spirit that more actively each year develops alongthe line that the Forest Service stands for, that is, usefulness and serv-ice to the people of the country in providing the wood necessary in itsevery day life. You are going to hear today about some of the problems con-nected with the industries depending upon the forest. The first ofthese is that which to each of you represents what you get in the news-papers every day and in the magazines you read, forming the aston-ishing amount of 35 pounds of paper to each man, woman and childin the United States every year. When you think of the paper thatis used for other purposes besides newspapers it makes the total ofover 100 pounds of all kinds of paper consumed by each of you everyyear. It is natural to assume that in the production of that vastamount of material there are a great many problems and on thoseproblems we are going to hear from ^Ir. Fverest, General ^Managerof the INIarathon Paper INIills Company.
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A 13kcennial Kkcoki) 143 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY^ D. C. Everest, Secretary and General Manager, MarathonPaper Mills Company Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: In presenting some of the problems in which the Pulp and PaperIndustry is interested, I intend to deal onh^ with those which relate tothe work of the Forest Products Laboratory and which we expect tobe able to solve by intelligent cooperation Mith this institution. In the beginning I wish to say that even though this laboratoryhas been in existence for ten years, Paper and Pulp manufacturershave not taken advantage of its remarkable facilities to any great ex-tent, and, as a matter of fact, onty comparatively few yet realize whata wonderful asset we have in this institution. What I have said ofthe Paper and Pulp industry, I beheve applies equally as well toother branches of industry represented here today and those whichhave to deal with forest products in any form. Had we as manufacturers of forest materials awake

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