Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When WPB slammed the lid on new piano production last July, the gloom-wrapped industry changed over quickly to making plywood plane parts, deicers. But it kept one eye on the piano market...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...
Last spring Hobbs and Comstock discovered that the Army was shipping heavy steel huts all the way from Quonset, R.I. to the Arctic. These huts were not too satisfactory. The partners at once thought of making plywood and Masonite huts right in Seattle. In 21 days they designed their round, spruce-ribbed hut, sold the Army an educational order for 85. The first ones turned out so well that by September they had Army encouragement to build a new plant. They raised $100,000 to buy an abandoned shipyard and an adjoining gas station, built...
Read FORTUNE'S article on Eugene Vidal famed for his "cooking" process for making plywood more durable than metal for airplane parts...
Henry John Heinz II, 34-year-old president of H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. Under him the company has gone into the production of plywood parts for warplanes...