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During World War II, Hughes designed a 200-ton, eight-engine plywood flying boat, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, that was meant...
...week old, Ruckelshaus startled the mayors of Atlanta, Detroit and Cleveland by giving them 180 days to come up with a plan to correct water-quality violations-or else. In ensuing months, he ordered action taken against some 185 other water polluters, including Armco Steel, U.S. Steel, Koppers, U.S. Plywood-Champion, ITT Rayonier and a host of municipalities. The agency recently broke all precedent by getting a federal court order forcing 23 plants in Birmingham to cut back on production during a five-day temperature inversion that was creating dangerous air pollution. Mercury discharges, thermal pollution, auto emissions-under Ruckelshaus...
...boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted '56 truck: "It's a nice home-and there aren't any cockroaches...
...homeless refugees. Today it is sold by contract to a wealthy Vietnamese trash collector, who then sells it to refugees at inflated prices. In one refugee village, where the average daily wage is less than 200 piasters (73?), a 4-ft. by 8-ft. sheet of scrap plywood costs 800 to 1,000 piasters; a cardboard carton brings 200 piasters. Under the system that has evolved, the refugees pay rich Vietnamese for the privilege of living under cast-off American crates, and the rich Vietnamese pay U.S. authorities for what amounts to the privilege of gouging the refugees...
When police blocked the demonstrators from proceeding further into the building, the demonstrators began to carry the plywood barrier piece by piece down Independence Ave. toward the White House...