Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bracketed, the PT weaved desperately to escape, then came to a grinding halt on the cruel edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...
...Alexander Yakovlev cut his teeth on trainers before turning to fighters. His proudest brain child is the YAK, a cannon-armed, partly plywood, 400-mile-an-hour plane, which has consistently outfought the Messerschmitt. Practical Vice Commissar Yakovlev is manager of a huge aircraft plant, a major general...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...
...plywood Army glider was released from its tow plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., traditional home of U.S. furniture, had been steadily converting to plane parts and plywood gliders. Fifteen Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers (75% of Grand Rapids' production facilities) consolidated as Grand Rapids Industries, got the wooden parts contracts, recently bought up plane patent rights from General Aircraft Corp...