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2. Paper towel - Wikipedia

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   The growth in commercial use of paper towels can be attributed to the migration from folded towels (in public bathrooms, for example) to roll towel dispensers, which reduces the amount of paper towels used by each patron. [12] Within the forest products industry, paper towels are a major part of the "tissue market", second only to toilet paper ...

3. Dominion Textile - Wikipedia

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   In 1905, four of the largest textile companies in Canada, which between them owned over half the looms and spindles in the country, [1] merged to form Dominion Textile, which soon gained a near monopoly in the tariff-protected Canadian market. Based in Montreal, it was one of Canada's leading companies and had close links to the government.

4. Towel - Wikipedia

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   A cloth towel dispenser or continuous cloth towel is a towel manipulated by a series of rollers, used as an alternative to paper towels and hand dryers in public washrooms. These may have a lower environmental impact than paper towels, [8] though concerns over hygiene mean they are not used by some organisations [9] and have greatly declined in ...

5. Pure laine - Wikipedia

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   Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer who established the earliest French settlements in what is now Quebec.. The French term pure laine (lit. ' pure wool ' or ' genuine ', often translated as 'old stock' or 'dyed-in-the-wool'), refers to Québécois people of full French Canadian ancestry, meaning those descended from the original settlers of New France who arrived during the 17th and ...

6. Acid-free paper - Wikipedia

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   The company Hercules Incorporated developed the first alkaline sizing in the 1950s that made acid-free paper possible. [10] Despite the advances in paper making and the identification of and concern around the brittle book problem, it took decades before the adoption of ANSI NISO Standard Z39.48-1984 - Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries in 1984.

7. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Canals' shipping costs were between two and three cents per ton-mile, compared to 17–20 cents by wagon. [7] The cost of constructing a typical canal was between $20,000 and $30,000 per mile. [9]: 53 Only 100 miles of canals had been built in the U.S. by 1816, and only a few were longer than two miles.