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...Plywood-Champion Pa pers, Inc., the manufacturers formed their own mortgage-finance company and announced its intention to offer 10%-down-payment loans without Government backing to buyers of homes priced as high as $40,000 or occasionally more. "There's an overwhelming need for this sort of thing," said Plywood-Champion President Gene C. Brewer. "Because of its fragmented nature, the industry is being manipulated at the will of agencies beyond its control-or even its advice. The time has come to help not only ourselves but our customers...
...Park's government embarks on its second five-year plan, Korea is pulsing with activity. The war demands of Viet Nam have created a huge export market for uniforms, boots, rubber goods, plywood, construction materials and galvanized sheet plate. This, along with other expanding Asian civilian markets, helped to lift the country's commodity exports last year to a record $255 million. To reduce imports, South Korea's first oil refinery, built two years ago at Ulsan, is being expanded, and another $50 million refinery is going up at Yosu, providing the base for a $100 million...
Giving his customary plywood performance, Stack proves impervious to beatings, as well as to the entreaties of a bevy of stacked courtesans who try to vamp him out of the secret. His taste, it turns out, is strictly Occidental, and when he shares the discovery with Elke she flashes her smile and her decolletage and helps him uncover the loot. To no avail: the riches finally go into the Red when Mao's minions gun down the princess and the racketeer and force the inspector back to the West...
...works as sculpture at all. They are merely exercises in basic design, similar to those that he requires from his students at Manhattan's Hunter College. He built each piece originally in tiny paper tetrahedrons, octahedrons or dodecahedrons. After that, friends constructed the full-scale mock-ups in plywood and painted them with automobile undercoating (only three have been cast in steel). The results, Smith feels, should be called simply "presences...
...antique is essentially "something out of the past that reminds us of a way of life that was different from our own." Samples of Late Victoriana offer sound opportunities for long-term appreciation. Speculative buyers might also pick up pieces from the 1920s, like clear plastic beds or early plywood furniture. "A hundred years from now," predicts Grotz, "dealers will still be complaining that they can't find any of the good stuff any more. You know, the stuff with real character-like Early Plywood...