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Word: plywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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First to arrive on the scene after the story was printed were the 42nd Engineers, of the U.S. Army, with enough lumber and plywood for a floor and additional material for finishing other parts of the church. Then cash contributions from the U.S. began arriving. At present they total more than $1,200, which has been turned over to George Fitch, local director of the YMCA and an old Asia hand, for conversion into yen (Koreans may not possess American money). With this more than ample sum Ye Yun Ho now plans the following projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Five months to the day after Gay's disappearance, Camb went on trial for his life. He sat in the dock at the Hampshire Assizes in a shedlike courtroom of canvas and plywood, incongruous amidst stained glass and granite pillars, within the 13th Century Great Hall of Winchester Castle. Most of the space in the public gallery was occupied by fashionably dressed women, many of whom appeared daily at 5:30 a.m. to make sure of a seat. The press made much of this welcome diversion from the European crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...targets of the committee's probe (TIME, Aug. 11) into the affairs of the man-of-many-businesses. But Hughes had no intention of exiling himself. Early last August, a crew of 100 men began working round-the-clock shifts, seven days a week, to complete the plywood plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: It Flies! | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...children-the exact complement of Brigham Young's advance guard in the great trek of 1847-started west from Nauvoo, Ill. to commemorate that event. They anticipated nothing more dangerous than flat tires and Chamber of Commerce luncheons. Their shiny new Buick and Studebaker automobiles were disguised by plywood oxen and white canvas tops. To please the church's publicity department, they camped out every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...plant will soon be opened at Longview. Then bark processing and plywood making will be on an assembly-line basis. Mechanical peelers will strip the logs, send the bark to the processing section, the logs to the saws; they will meet again as Silvacon glue and plywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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