The Big three of wood
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- The Big three of wood
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- English
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- 1951
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- The Big Three of Wood Wood will become the characteristic raw material of our civilization because it has three attributes which make it unique among all materials. 1. Wood is universal. Wood has become a raw material that can satisfy almost every requirement of existence—and not merely er satz goods. It can and does produce food for men and animals. It is already the world’s second most important source of textile fi bers—wood clothes a good part of the nation. Someday wood will supply a large portion of the world’s motor fuels and lubricants. As a building material, it now yields a variety of plywoods, plastics, and wood alloys that can meet any engineering specification. 2. Wood is abundant. As against the neg ligible areas where coal, iron ore, oil, and other mineral resources are found, forests cover 8000 million acres—one fourth of the earth’s land area. And only a fraction of the world’s forest resources is now utilized. Callanta & Fernandez Lumber HARDWARE AND LUMBER DEALER (Member, Pangasinan, Chamber of Commerce) A. T. Bugallon, Dagupan City Main Office : L.D. Tel. No. 23-R Branch Office: L. D. Tel. No. 50-J A virtual terra incognita equal in acreage to the whole of North America lies in the tro pical and arctic forests. As for ability to pro duce—an acre of good forest can grow an nually several times as much fiber as an acre of cotton, and as much sugar as the same soil planted to sugar beets. 3. Wood is inexhaustible. The forest is not a mine that eventually will be depleted, but a crop land. Provided trees are harvested as a crop and the forest is sustained by proper management, wood will forever yield all the material the human race can conceivably re quire.” From “THE COMING AGE OF WOOD”—Egon Glesinger. Simon and Schus ter, Inc., New York, 1949. U. S. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MANILA REGIONAL OFFICE Manila (Special)—Some P79,156.62 is paid out monthly by the U.S. Veterans Admi nistration to 1,233 beneficiaries in the Pro vince of Laguna, Brig. Gen. Ralph B. Lovett, USVA Manager in the Philippines, announced this week. Meanwhile, considering all 49 provinces and the City of Manila, which boasts the larg est single concentration of beneficiaries, the USVA is paying out P5.849,064.34 monthly to 76.540 regular beneficiaries, or an average of P76,540 regular beneficiaries, or an ave rage of P76.43 per beneficiary per month. These figures do not include initial payments or accrued benefits. When these initial pay ments, sometimes amounting to more than P3.000.00 each, are considered, the most re cent tabulation reveals that the USVA ac tually paid a total of P8,190,909.62 during the month of February in the form of 81,357 checks. When compared to other provinces, exclud ing Manila, Laguna ranks 18th in number of beneficiaries and 19th in amount paid by the USVA, said Gen. Lovett. (Press Release) Page 118 FORESTRY LEAVES