Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make gold. U.S. economic aid to neutralist Cambodia totals nearly $230 million and keeps the national economy on an even keel. Another $87 million in U.S. military assistance has gone into equipping Cambodia's 28,000-man army. From Red China, Sihanouk has gotten three factories (textile, plywood, paper) and the promise of three more. The Soviet Union weighed in last year with a 500-bed hospital. Both the U.S. and Russia are building and staffing new technological institutes...
...venereal disease than it did from German bullets. Even in the famed Guards regiments, few of the hastily called-up reservists had seen, much less fired, a shot in anger until their first encounter with the Germans. The ist Armored Division arrived at the Western Front with mockup plywood tanks; another unit had six mobile movie houses, but only a handful of obsolete antitank weapons...
...example is the senior-year aerodynamics course taught by Associate Professor Erik Mollö-Christensen. First, Mollö-Christensen holds a lottery, and the number each student draws corresponds to something in the lab-a piece of wire, a piece of plastic tubing or of plywood. Working in pairs, the students are required to determine the modulus of elasticity of the material they drew. Two students, working with a piece of brass, determined its elasticity by measuring the speed at which sound passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long...
...they do, eat the food they do, share their homes and show them that an American is not too proud to become one of them. We would be willing to instruct the Rothschilds in basic money problems. We could show Mr. Onassis how to build tankers cheaply out of plywood, and the Aga Khan how to use the sea as a source of food. We would instruct the women how to make the most of their Diors and Balenciagas and how to develop their natural resources. With the latest American cosmetic equipment they could earn diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds...
...beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness is that to what is largely familiar material it brings little rewarding development, so that together with repeating others, it more and more repeats itself. Once the paint wears thin, there is the merest plywood behind it; but the paint itself is fresh...