Word: plywood
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...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...
...Hughes, one must admit, was most worth our notice when he was dedicated to making himself unnoticeable. His was not a life with much substance in it, having been most conspicuous for his dream of floating large bodies not quite airworthy, such as Jane Russell and that plywood transport...
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...
Kodak has been toying with instant-photography technology for at least 20 years: "plywood Brownie" was the name of a laboratory exposure system for Kodak's instant films. (Polaroid has the same flair for nostalgia; SX 70 was the code designation for the research project that led to its first instant-picture camera in 1947.) But Kodak got cracking only in the 1960s, when Polaroid began rapidly lowering the prices of its instant cameras. Kodak's cameras have been put together since January on a 600-ft. assembly line in Kodak Park in Rochester; the development effort involved...