Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece of plywood was brought and nailed over the doorway. "O. K. Let's get out of here," said the Chief Deputy Sheriff, and the police got in their trucks and drove away...
...Middlesex County Chief Deputy Sheriff Robert Tobin and about 25 policemen arrived at the frame houses on North Harvard Street, broke locks off the doors, moved the furniture of these four elderly families into moving vans, and boarded up the doors with plywood. The residents, who had received 30-day eviction notices on September 11, said that they had not been told that the police would be coming yesterday, and most were away from home...
...restraining order was issued by Judge Francis Ford, allowing the families to move back for ten days. Late yesterday afternoon, four tenants took the plywood off the doors of their homes and moved back in. However, their furniture has not been returned...
Working against time, the Poles painstakingly detached 120 frescoes and reaf-fixed them to thin layers of plastic reinforced by plywood boards. Sixty of the detached frescoes were shipped upstream to the Sudanese archaeological museum at Khartoum, the remainder to Warsaw...
...Living in a mobile home can be surprisingly comfortable. Rooms are airy, and only the corridors are cramped. Skyline homes come furnished with chairs, couches, beds, carpeting, and even pictures on the plywood interior walls. A 60-ft. by 12-ft. model, which usually includes a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and bath, can cost as little as $4,000, though most are somewhat more. Two units, bolted together on the site to make a 60-ft. by 24-ft., three-bedroom home, usually go for $10,000 to $15,000. Sales are principally to retired people, bachelors and newlyweds...