Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highly skilled labor and high-precision machinery, both scarce, are required to make plywood. Precisions adjustable to 1/1,000 of an inch, and scarce chemicals such as phenol (used in the synthetic glue which made modern plywood possible) are additional problems. Perhaps most formidable is the lack of giant "hot plate" presses which form this world's strongest structural material under pressure up to 200 lb. per square inch...
...chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages. A Coggeshall dining table costs $12.50; coffee table, $3.50; chair, from $2.50 to $5. Coggeshall's proudest achievement: a $3.50 table, cut from a single piece of plywood. It stands without benefit of nails or glue. Coggeshall thinks his knock-down furniture would be fine for barracks overseas...
...successor, President Ismet Inönü promptly appointed a man whose similar leanings are not taken for granted: robust, greying Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu (rhymes with "marrow jaw glue"), 52, who in his time has held Turkey's portfolios of Finance, Justice, Interior and Education, who has helped President Inönüü plot and steer Turkey's present course. Hearty, bull-voiced Saracoglu sports a Hitler-style mustache and has often been suspected of Axis sympathies...
Making It Stick. Wood veneer (plywood) planes are 25 years old. The first rickety-looking planes were flown in World War I-but mould and temperature changes ate away the casein (milk base) glues which held their veneers together. Not until the plastics industry evolved a phenolic resin glue with a permanent grip were strong wood airplanes possible...
Before the Revolution, icons were still gathering soot in dim church recesses. Many were repainted six or seven times, defaced with plaster, chalk and glue relief. Their artistic worth escaped even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...