Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Falls. More & more, bright plywood replaced Warsaw's windowpanes. In the food lines, faces were sleepless and remote, and bitter quarrels broke out. Rulka saw a dead, horse in the street, stripped of its meat save for the haggard mask and stockings of hide. In a patch of grass at a street crossing, she found a little grave. At the foot was a glass with , two or three flowers in it. At the head was an amateur cross to which was thumbtacked a visiting card...
...investors got a classic example last week of the hazards in estimating wartime corporation profits. Out with their annual reports were Cessna Aircraft Co. and Beech Aircraft Corp.-both reporting for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Both companies are small, smart and fast-growing; both specialize in plywood, twin-engined training planes; both have recently gone into gliders; both have factories in Wichita, Kans. Yet their earnings were as different as down...
...anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts...
...Danish factory which has made blood albumin for use as adhesive in plywood is now turning to the manufacture of dried-blood powder and plasma for use in the food industry...
...counts upon Mexico for 45% of its requirements of graphite, 33% of its antimony, 40% of its sisal and henequen, 19% of its lead, a growing portion of its lumber (particularly mahogany, for plywood planes), plus important fractions of its needs for molybdenum, mercury, cobalt, manganese, mica, tungsten, tin, vanadium. This year Mexico will ship the U.S. some 400,000 tons of these metals alone; next year the figure should rise to nearly 2,000,000 tons...