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Word: plywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final sculpture, Hartmann explained, would be placed before the city's Palais de Justice, or courthouse. For a year Picasso ruminated, finally painted the first sketch on plywood. Then, working with twisted cardboard, which his assistant translated into pieces of metal and assembled, Picasso developed two versions, one light and delicate, the other roughhewn. Not until May 1965 did Picasso bring the two together, announce: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Windy City Windfall | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

With a current roster of just 60 members, corporations with sales of $1 billion or more a year form U.S. business' most exclusive club. Last week, noting a mutual dependence on that "ever renewable natural resource, the tree," Manhattan's U.S. Plywood Corp. (annual sales: $541,349,000) and Hamilton, Ohio's Champion Papers Inc. ($456,313,000) announced a merger that, with normal growth, should easily create a new member of the club. With stockholders' approval, Champion Papers President and Chairman Karl R. Bendetsen, 58, and U.S. Plywood President Gene C. Brewer, 52, will head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Bid for New Membership | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...airy, wide-open feeling of the interior is achieved by a series of 12-ft-wide plywood baffles along the sides, slanted to let nature in while reflecting sound through the theater. The bankroll was put up largely by New York State ($960,000), the brothers Rockefeller ($1,300,000) and the Saratoga racing community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: A Place, a Show, a Win | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...scheduled première night of the Ypsilanti Greek Theater last week, there was a plywood stage covering the infield and classic columns standing in front of the bases of the Eastern Michigan University ball park. From the home-team dugout, a 16-piece orchestra played eerie music, specially composed by Iannis Xenakis, while 1,500 gowned and black-tied first-nighters took their blue-cushioned seats in the weather-beaten grandstand. The guests included Broadway Actress Rosemary Harris and a clutch of local politicians, but this was one première where it was more important to see than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Grandeur in the Grandstand | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Even in plywood, it is a dazzling entry in the race for the richest prize in aviation history, $25 billion in plane-building business over the next 30 years. The 2000 is designed to cruise at 65,000 ft., whisk up to 266 travelers at the 1,800-m.p.h. speed of a rifle bullet. It would fly across the U.S. in 2 hr. 10 min. or from New York to Paris in 2 hr. 45 min.* The design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Golden Goose | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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