Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlie Bertsch, no longer so hearty and outgoing, has turned his place into a fortress. The day after the attack, Detective Gaffney came over with a load of plywood and, at Bertsch's request, nailed up all the windows. "That'll keep people from throwing fire bombs in," said Bertsch. He rarely goes out, getting food deliveries from a delicatessen, paying by check. Next year, he says, he plans to move. "There is no law here," said Charlie Bertsch. "I'm even afraid for the police...
...shards of glass that showered Boston from its spectacular John Hancock Tower have become collectors' items. The sheathing that temporarily replaced the 5,000 broken windows -the building became known as "the Plywood Palace"-is now being used at other construction sites. Finally, after a delay of five years, officials dedicated the trembling tower last week, and tenants began moving...
...easy chair. A $95 walnut table. An $84 clock. A $60 set of stack tables. Plywood valances worth $45 but requiring some $290 in labor to correct faulty installation...
Many big private companies in the area, like Weyerhaeuser, Crown Zellerbach and Georgia-Pacific, are not seriously affected, because they mostly log their own lands. But other giants and nearly all the small independent producers are in big trouble. Says Gerald McChesney, president of Fort Vancouver Plywood Co. in Washington: "This could kill us-99% of our timber comes from the Pinchot National Forest." As for prices, predicts Lewis Krauss, partner in the Rough & Ready Timber Co. of Cave Junction, Ore.: "We could have a wood crunch as bad as the oil crunch of two years...
South House, which always provides a good laugh, did it again when its plywood and oil drum craft simply folded up, sandwiching several hardy souls in the middle...