Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond these gadgets mankind swarms into what seems to be a decorated subway. There spectators gaze at large canvases by England's Leonora Carrington, Spain's Miro, Chile's Matta, all their works unframed, suspended in the air from wooden arms protruding from concave plywood walls. Every two minutes, while onlookers enjoy the spectacle, a roar as of an approaching train is heard, lights go out on one side of the gallery, pop on at the other...
...your key men out," MacArthur promised Squadron Leader Bulkeley. The men remembered the promise without enthusiasm. They knew that they and their six little ships were chiefly useful for gumming up the works of the Japanese invaders on Bataan. In their 70-by-20 foot, plywood speedboats, they expended all they had in "America's little Dunkirk." But MacArthur kept his promise, and they came back to tell about...
Last week, Lawrence Ottinger, president of U.S. Plywood Corp., told stockholders that their company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...
Three steps have been taken to increase and distribute the supply: 1) A group of furniture manufacturers of Jamestown, N.Y. (the "Little Grand Rapids") formed American Aviation Corp. Aided by aviation technicians, the furniture men aim to provide plywood planes and gliders on a mass-production basis for the Navy. 2) In New York City, a group of plastics manufacturers formed the Plastic War Production Association, will pool machinery and knowledge. 3) WPB this week issued an order providing for complete allocation of Douglas fir among high priority holders...
Highly skilled labor and high-precision machinery, both scarce, are required to make plywood. Precisions adjustable to 1/1,000 of an inch, and scarce chemicals such as phenol (used in the synthetic glue which made modern plywood possible) are additional problems. Perhaps most formidable is the lack of giant "hot plate" presses which form this world's strongest structural material under pressure up to 200 lb. per square inch...