Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of four years of experiment and trial building, the 26-by-8-ft. wooden house has walls of "Tempered Presdwood" and plywood, wings which slide out like bureau drawers to form two bedrooms, a kitchen-dining-living room, and bathroom. It is set up complete with all plumbing, bathroom and kitchen fixtures, built-in beds, and bureaus...
Lincoln was such a success that everybody wanted to get in the act. Kids at Lincoln made drums from coconuts and formed their own symphony orchestras. Tenth-graders solemnly analyzed the biases of the daily newspapers. Fourth-graders built their own bank of plywood and paid for their lunches by check." Older students made trips to T.V.A...
...formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along with most of Gross's million. He went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew...
...long stream of carpenters, electricians and movers had worked long hours to put the magnificent house, once the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, into tiptop shape. Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
...bound for a plywood mill. Logs are rotated against a huge blade which peels them into long, thin sheets of wood...