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...techniques, Ottinger has done more than any other man to raise the once-despised plywood to its present lofty status. By binding plywood to metal, Ottinger and his technicians opened up new markets for the material (in trains, truck bodies and shipping containers). They perfected a thin hardwood veneer as flexible as cloth, turned out a wall covering that cannot be distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related products now sold...
When the lights went up again, six deceptively slim and pale-skinned runners were waiting in a lonely and nervous group on the homestretch of the hardwood track. The loudspeakers announced the famed Wanamaker Mile. The crowd rumbled. Even those who did not quite understand the amateur's willingness to suffer for glory could feel the tension; the six were meeting in indoor track's main event, a punishing and uncertain contest which would be won only after all were half dead with blinding, burning fatigue...
Occasionally the boots fit too well. The problem arises when the boot is too tightly fitted to the "last." When normal tugging fails to get the waxed "last" out of the finished boot, the hardwood form must painstakingly be chiseled out of the boot...
...black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world. The newsmen persuaded him to take off his jacket and western shirt, and pose for an hour with the hardwood spear, stone ax and Bible that he had brought with...
Felton's former teammate here, Pete Hardwood, finished second to Morcom in the pole vault. He did 12 feet, 6 inches. No varsity entires competed, since track coach Mikkola is resting his team for tomorrow's meet at West Point...