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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 70, No. 5 (May, 1950), pp. i-viiiPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/19934 .
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Poles are a substantial part of the plant that serves your telephone; making them last longer keeps down repairs and renewals that are part of tele- phone costs. So Bell Laboratories have long been active in the attack on wood-destroying fungi, the worst enemies of telephone poles.
Better, cleaner creosotes and other preserva- tives have been developed in co-operation with the wood-preserving industry. Research is now being carried out on greensalt - a new, clean, odorless preservative. Even the products of atomic energy research, radioactive isotopes, are used to measure penetration of fluids into wood.
Treated poles last from three to five times as long as untreated poles. This has saved enough timber during the last quarter century to equal
a forest of 25,000,000 trees. More than that, wood preservation permits the use of cheaper, fast-growing timber instead of scarcer varieties.
This and other savings in pole-line costs, such as stronger wires which need fewer poles, are some of the reasons why America's high-quality telephone service can be given at so reasonable a cost. It is one of today's best bargains.
Exploring and Inventing, Devising and Perfecting, for Con- tinued Improvements and Economies in Telephone Service.
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Special Book Issue Terrace Agriculture in the Colca Valley, Peru .Cover
(Photo from Shipee-Johnson Expedition, courtesy Victor W. von Hagen)
Symposium: The Kinsey Report and its Contributions to Related Fields: The Kinsey Report and the Law .Morris L. Ernst 279 An Anthropologist Views the Kinsey Report. Ralph Linton 282 Comments on Dr. Linton's Paper .(George P. Murdock 285 The Kinsey Report and Opinion and Attitude Research . . Iugh Jones Parry 286 The Kinsey Report and Society . M. S. Guttmacher 291
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