Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
Warmth and cheer in the form of the latest steel and plywood prefab huts were delivered in 5,404 enormous crates; the G.I.s started to assemble them...
Plaster Paneling. Fondly eying the amateur home fixers, U.S. Gypsum Co. showed off its new sheetrock gypsum wallboard, which it hopes will replace plywood for many uses. The board is fire-resistant, sound-dampening, and can be easily glued to old plaster walls or any other smooth surface. Panels are 16 in. wide and 8 to 10 ft. long, come in plain, knotty pine and striated finishes, and they can easily be cut with a penknife. Price...
GREAT FALLS, MONT, (goal: $100,000) mounted a big red plywood rooster on the marquee of a department store. Each $20,000 raised supplied the bird with one feather for its tail...
...third is now bought directly by the home owner. Do-it-yourself has brought similar gains, and market shifts, to other industries. Retail lumber sales have risen from $1.2 billion to $4.3 billion, with much of the increase due to purchases by home workers. Since 1946, the amount of plywood sold to non-professional builders has almost doubled (in 1951 it was 10% of total output); manufacturers are encouraging such trade by making a variety of ready-to-use panels in small handy sizes...