Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piling scores of shrimpers, each costing from $35,000 to $50,000, into hull-shattered heaps of as many as 25 boats each. Gusts up to 109 m.p.h. threw horizontal sheets of rain so fast that, to one observer, they sounded "like a million angry hornets." Plywood shutters, hammered hastily into place on the shop windows of Brownsville's main drag, were shucked off like orange skins; power lines cracked with bullwhip viciousness...
Last week Dr. Eagleson told the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board...
...Plywood-Champion Pa pers, Inc., the manufacturers formed their own mortgage-finance company and announced its intention to offer 10%-down-payment loans without Government backing to buyers of homes priced as high as $40,000 or occasionally more. "There's an overwhelming need for this sort of thing," said Plywood-Champion President Gene C. Brewer. "Because of its fragmented nature, the industry is being manipulated at the will of agencies beyond its control-or even its advice. The time has come to help not only ourselves but our customers...
Home Capital starts with a modest nest egg of $2,000,000 put up by Plywood-Champion, Andersen Corp., Armstrong Cork, Kaiser Industries, Masonite and Reynolds Metals. By borrowing as much as twelve times that amount from banks and other sources of capital-much as consumer-and auto-finance concerns do-Home Capital expects to be able to make loans on some 7,000 homes within 18 months. The money will go primarily to buyers of new, one-family homes through mortgage bankers across the U.S. With more capital and borrowing, Home Capital aims at financing 100,000 homes...
Giving his customary plywood performance, Stack proves impervious to beatings, as well as to the entreaties of a bevy of stacked courtesans who try to vamp him out of the secret. His taste, it turns out, is strictly Occidental, and when he shares the discovery with Elke she flashes her smile and her decolletage and helps him uncover the loot. To no avail: the riches finally go into the Red when Mao's minions gun down the princess and the racketeer and force the inspector back to the West...