WORTH BILLIONS.
CORNSTALKS GOING TO WASTE. WASHINGTON, April 14. i Government scientists are convincec that millions of tons of cornstalks, an nually going to waste, eventually can be utilised profitably for the production oi cellulose for making artificial silk, movie films, explosives and ether commodities but are unwilling to comment on the process invented by Dr. Bela Dorner, ar Hungarian, who is one of the foremost industrial chemists of Europe. Dr. Dorner's patents have been acquired by New York financiers, -who an planning to erect mills throughout tht "Corn Belt," and who claim thev can add billions of dollars to the value 'of the '.ovcriuni-iit cxpom point out that the Government laboratories fifteen vean I ago produced a high-grade paper 'fron i cornstalks, but commercially the procesi Jwas impracticable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 92, 20 April 1927, Page 7
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