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Show Wood Successfully Replacing Metal for Many Purposes Though historians skipped it, a wood age must have preceded the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages, but that oversight is now to be remediedA reme-diedA Wood age is going to follow fol-low them. We are now in the first phases of this new wood age. It is ushering in new businesses and reviving re-viving old arts was revealed in a survey of displayed consumer goods items at a large merchandising center cen-ter in Chicago, HI More on the artistic side are displayed dis-played scores of new woodenware products that come under a gift classification. Among these is a table ta-ble piece corved in the form of a lobster with a well in its back for salads or snucks. Then there is a variety, of carved trays, and platters. plat-ters. Some of the latter have grooved outlines to fit the shape of turkeys, ducks, etc. Here are more items being made out of wood Instead of metal: |