Kappel, Frederick Russell, (14 Jan. 1902–10 Nov. 1994), retired as Chairman of Board: American Telephone & Telegraph Company; International Paper Company; Chairman, Board of Governors, US Postal Service

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Postal Service ◽  
International Paper ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
Paper Company

Degradation of Cellulose and Wood Products in Polluted and Unpolluted Rivers

1974 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
D. J. Kushner ◽  
M. Vincent ◽  
C. Novitsky
Keyword(s):  
Treated Wood ◽  
Untreated Wood ◽  
Chemical Conversion ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Ottawa River ◽  
International Paper ◽  
Pure Cellulose ◽  
Cotton Fibres ◽  
Paper Company

Abstract Natural rates of degradation of cellulose and of wood products were studied by enclosing this material in nylon sacs with 20 um diameter pores and suspending the sacs in different parts of the Gatineau and Ottawa Rivers, for periods of up to 90 days. White spruce chips and sawdust were studied, either without treatment or after chemical conversion to holocellulose or cellulose. Untreated wood was almost entirely resistant to degradation, as measured by weight loss. Conversion to holocellulose made wood quite susceptible to degradation, but conversion of holocellulose to cellulose did not increase the rate of degradation. Cotton fibres (almost pure cellulose) were less rapidly degraded than treated wood. Little or no degradation occurred in the Gatineau River, which is relatively unpolluted by sewage or industrial wastes. Much more occurred in both water and sediments of the heavily polluted Ottawa River. An especially active site was found just below the Canadian International Paper Company. These results emphasize the importance of lignin in protecting cellulose from biodegradation and suggest in which natural sites we might expect biodegradation of wood products to occur most rapidly.

Fear and Loathing on the Low and High Roads

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Michael G. Hillard
Keyword(s):  
Paper Industry ◽  
International Competition ◽  
International Paper ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Paper Company ◽  
Pricing Power ◽  
Industrial State ◽  
At Home

This chapter deals with the national and international competition that was eroding companies' pricing power and market shares by the mid-1980s. It talks about workers in a mature industrial state like Maine who were expected to see their paper industry jobs disappear as production moved overseas and work was automated at home and abroad. It also discusses how the national companies that owned Maine's mills made radical demands on workers and attacked traditional union contracts outright. The chapter cites that Boise Cascade and International Paper Company (IP) provoked strikes by making extreme, untenable demands on workers in their Rumford and Jay, Maine, mills in 1986 and 1987. It probes the union-busting campaigns conducted by Boise Cascade and IP that defined what economists call the low road, which clobbered workers in the quest to quickly raise profits.

Missouri Economics Course is Specifically for J-Majors

1977 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-80
Author(s):  
Gerald E. Auten
Keyword(s):  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
International Paper ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Paper Company ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalism Students ◽  
Foundation Award ◽  
The University

EDITOR'S NOTE: Journalism graduates are often criticized for their failure to understand economic systems and for their inability to relate business developments and problems to readers, listeners and viewers. The criticism becomes more pointed when journalism graduates are promoted to administrative and management positions in the media. The specialized economic analysis course described here by Prof. Auten of the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Economics is aimed at this problem. The course description won the International Paper Company Foundation Award in Economic Education in a program co-sponsored by the Joint Committee on Economic Education. As reported late in the article, the course has proved popular with journalism students, too. A student evaluation score placed the course in the 99th percentile among all courses at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Among those who contributed significantly to the development of the course were Dean Roy M. Fisher of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Richard Wallace, Lyle Harris and Janet Auten.

scholarly journals A Private Landowner Perspective of State Policy, Economics and Responsibility in Spruce Budworm Control

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-394
Author(s):  
Jerry R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Choristoneura Fumiferana ◽  
Spruce Budworm ◽  
The State ◽  
Resource Analysis ◽  
Private Landowner ◽  
International Paper ◽  
Paper Company ◽  
Program Costs ◽  
Benefit Cost

International Paper Company owns 800 000 acres of timberland in Maine stocked with spruce-fir that has experienced damage from the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens)). Until 1982, these lands were included in the State of Maine-conducted aerial spray protection program. Following changes in state policy and administration, program costs, landowner objectives, and marketing requirements, IP withdrew from the state program to conduct its own program in 1983. Various economic and legal considerations with benefit/cost ratios from protection are described. In addition, the future wood supply is questioned and the state is encouraged to spin off the spray program to the private sector and to concentrate its efforts on resource analysis, insect survey and detection and research.

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