Gum-Dipped

Gum-Dipped PDF

Author: Joyce Dyer

Publisher: The University of Akron Press

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781931968171

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Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town tells the story of growing up in the rubber community of Firestone Park in Akron, Ohio"the former Rubber Capital of the World. The book begins with the rededication of the bronze Harvey Firestone statue on August 3, 2000, at the Centennial celebration for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. The statue"perched high on a hill at the entrance to Firestone Park, the residential community Harvey built for his workers in 1915"was sacred to the author, Joyce Coyne Dyer, and her father, Tom Coyne, during the fifties, a time when the Coynes worshipped the company and thought themselves members of the Firestone family.

A Naval Stores Handbook Dealing with the Production of Pine Gum Or Oleoresin

A Naval Stores Handbook Dealing with the Production of Pine Gum Or Oleoresin PDF

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Published: 1935

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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This handbook aims to give in encyclopedic form, for ready reference, an illustrated summary to date of information on where and how pine gum, or oleoresin, is obtained from living trees with suggestions for improving methods of production. The information presented here, if applied, should result in more profitable returns from the forests, reduction of forest wastes, and improved products from the second-growth longleaf and slash pines in the Southeastern States.

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