Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been in Cambodia now for a month, arriving when it looked as if the aid would soon be appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
...remainder of the apartment is no better. Large gaping holes pattern the plaster, and broken windows are boarded over with plywood. The Whites have four single beds for the nine of them, and there are four chairs and a small table in the entrance way, where the family eats in two shifts. The kitchen is dim and terribly hot. Mary keeps the stove burning all day because the central heating rarely works. "The gas is leaking just a little," she says, "and the doctor says we've got to keep the stove off. But if we did there wouldn...
...Roosevelt later presented him with the Harmon Trophy. In 1938 he flew around the world in a record 91 hr. 14 min., was given a ticker-tape parade on Broadway that surpassed Lindbergh's. Hughes' big flop of World War II−a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat dubbed the "Spruce Goose," which was only 11 ft. 4 in. shorter than today's 747 superjet−led to a celebrated joust with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster before a congressional committee. Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds...
...family's fortune (U.S. Plywood) will enable him to do so again?and again. Criticized as a creation of television, Ottinger is countering with 14-hour days of personal appearances to affirm that the flesh and blood are real...
...Navy during World War II, Eames developed a traction splint-a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...