Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...
...streetcar clanked slowly along Munich's long, steep Tegernseer Landstrasse. Inside, behind the plywood which replaced the car's bomb-shattered windows, it was dark. The conductor was collecting fares. One woman fumbled in her handbag for a 50-pfennig piece, dropped it on the floor as the car shook...
...oldtime boatbuilders with a completely new postwar line was the Richardson Boat Co., Inc. of Tonawanda, N.Y. Instead of the traditional frame-and-plank construction, Richardson was showing 25-ft. cabin cruisers of molded mahogany plywood (price: $4,500 & up). Less conventional and less expensive (under $4,000) was the 26-ft. Steelcraft, an all-steel, welded hull cabin cruiser made by West Haven, Conn.'s Churchward...
...prizewinning furniture, which would probably raise no cheers in Grand Rapids, was a plywood table and chair with rod-thin, chrome-plated legs. They were designed by California's solemn, earnest Charles Eames, 39, onetime pupil of famed Finnish modernist Eliel Saarinen. Eames, who designed molded plywood splints for the Navy during the war, is a man who believes that utility is beauty's only garment. He finds the kitchen and bathroom the most beautiful rooms in most U.S. homes. By the same token, Designer Eames explains, "when a chair is comfortable it becomes beautiful...
...studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood made especially for him by a Belgian manufacturer of matchboxes...