Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rough cast iron with plastic handles. Some toilet fixtures have glass pipes. There are no bathtubs or private bathrooms, just showers in central bathrooms. Only lighting facilities are wall plugs for wood-stemmed, paper-shaded floor lamps (one for every man). Bedsprings have wooden bases. Interior walls are mainly plywood...
...Also a wood plane is the graceful (6,200-Ib.) Russian fighter T-18, or MIG-3, which has plywood in wings and tail as well as fuselage. A single 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, 1,200-h.p. motor gives it a top speed of 360 m.p.h. at 13,000 ft. Its armament is reportedly very light-two 7.6-mm. machine guns, one 12.7-mm. machine...
...yonder in New Orleans they had plenty to cheer about last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, their No. 1 boatbuilder, money-maker and hoopla artist, had practically landed one of the biggest single transport-plane contracts in U.S. history: about $180,000,000 for 1,200 huge, twin-engined, all-plywood troop-and tank-carrying planes. This was good news for Louisiana's Andrew Higgins-the man who took ribbing aplenty when his much-touted Liberty Ship contract was canceled last summer. It also meant that Higgins had stolen a march on his friend and archrival, Henry Kaiser, the Wizard...
With all this up the sleeves of his dark red shirts, Higgins figures he will have his first plywood plane in the air six months after the Army gives him the final...
Besides this staff, Higgins has some plant, some materials and some promises. The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat...