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Pulp, Paper, and By-products 



IN MICHIGAN one crystal autumn day, two chemists 

 were hunting ruffed grouse when they flushed an idea 

 as startling as the whirring rush of that king of North- 

 ern game birds as he bursts in full flight from under- 

 footpine trees could be a greater annual crop in the 

 South than cotton. 



Fifteen years ago you might just as well have said 

 that Rhode Island will someday be larger than Texas 

 or that we will be willing to pay more for sand than 

 for sapphires. Tomorrow that forecast may be literally 

 true. 



These mighty hunters were "Capt'n Charlie" Herty 

 and "Uncle Billy" Hale: Dr. Charles Holmes Herty, 

 once professor of chemistry at North Carolina Uni- 

 versity, and Dr. William Jay Hale, director of organic 

 research at the Dow Chemical Company. They lunched 

 that day on a little open knoll in the midst of dark jack 

 pines and flaming maples, all scarlet and gold. The 

 October sun was warm, and after munching gratefully 

 on their smoked sausage sandwiches, they leaned back 



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