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Show GoodHaivs Department THE 'IMPOSSIBLE' IDEA THAT WASN'T They said it couldn't be done. But today, over 100,000 jobs have been created because American men and women did it. "Too small," said experts years ago when asked if Southern yellow pine logs could make plywood for constructing American homes. But a company incorporated in-corporated with just $12,000 of capital in 1927 has succeeded. For every dollar of capital then, the company has over $4 1 5,666 in assets now. In 1981, the accomplishment accomplish-ment making plywood from Southern yellow pine logs meant 16,500 plywood ply-wood industry jobs, $1.25 billion in plywood shipments and 80,000 support jobs for American communities. The company that succeeded suc-ceeded with the logs that to others seemed "too small" is Georgia-Pacific, now the n ' world's largest plywood producer. In 1980, a Fortune magazine maga-zine report showed Georgia-Pacific Georgia-Pacific to have the best overall growth record of all Fortune 500 corporations corpora-tions over a 25-year period. Millions of our homes using Southern plywood might well have cost more if an efficient way to produce that plywood had not been invented. How about you do you automatically tend to believe be-lieve it when people say that something "can't be done?" |