Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many phenomena were hoaxes by practical jokers. A woman in Seattle reported excitedly that a flaming disc had landed on her roof. When examined by federal agents and Navy bomb experts, it turned out to be a 28-in. disc of plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
They built three snowhouses. Each was about eight feet high, 10 ft. by 14 ft. in breadth. They used their parachutes for roofs, stripped the ailerons from their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...
...pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale. The days dragged...
...houses, President Jim Price admits, were nothing but "glorified chicken coops." At war's end the brothers decided a good house could be built from plywood at low prices. They standardized parts, designed them so they were easy to assemble, found ingenious ways to cut costs. They set up assembly lines which can now turn out 16 houses a day in two, three-and four-bedroom models, ranging in price from $7,100 to $10,000. With their own fleet of 35 trucks, they deliver houses right to the lot. Last year they completed 2,500, netted...
Jawbreaker. Rats, which eat $2 billion worth of U.S. food and other property annually, can't get through a tough new low-cost plywood ("Protekwood") developed by the U.S. Plywood Corp. The cost (8½? a sq. ft.), said U.S. Plywood, makes Protekwood feasible for rat-proofing on farms and other places where concrete, sheet metal or wire mesh would be too expensive...