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They also erected a three-sided plyboard monument with one side for workers, one side for students and one side for the administration. The student and worker's side contained quotes, pictures and signed messages, but the administrative side contained a letter of support addressed to the WRC that activists are urging the administration to sign...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Rally Caps off Week of Sweatshop Protests | 4/4/2000 | See Source »

...that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment. This gives Author Karig (himself a captain in the Naval Reserve) a chance to set up a gallery of fine portraits in brass and then paint mustaches on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Treatment | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Chaldeans, the Turks, the Etruscans and God knows how many other minorities." But the White House secretary turns out to be just one of Steve Early's minor assistants. Jones's appointment is delayed until Franklin Roosevelt dies-and Jones returns to his rounds of the plyboard offices. He is still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Treatment | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...talking about signs and markers but I got tired of waiting on them and went ahead myself," Earp explained to reporters. "I've got Ernie Shaffer-he's my carpenter-building the sign right now. He's had a little trouble getting a piece of plyboard for the middle-that's hard stuff to find nowadays-but he should be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: By the Tall Pine Tree | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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