Word: plywoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's General Radiant Heater Co. produced a new type of electric radiant heating system, including a portable heater that looks like a 2 ft. by 3 ft. panel of plywood or marble. Price of the portable panel: $19.95. The panel, which is actually of asbestos imbedded with wires, radiates a 135-160° heat when plugged into a light socket. To heat a house, panels can be built into the walls and covered with specially treated paint or wallpaper...
Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners, it was tapping an exhaustible commodity-neither industry could expand beyond certain rigid limits without inviting disaster...
...turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular-tube sets and by developing cheaper cabinets. Remembering the PT-boat hulls molded from plywood, he got a PT-boat maker to turn out for Tele King "seamless" cabinets whose top and sides are molded from one piece of mahogany plywood...
...suites in the rest of the Hall. The architects soon discovered that the building was even more massive than it looked. When Dudley opened in 1908, it was a privately managed apartment house for University men, advertised as the best built in Cambridge--and those were the days before plywood walls and plastic plumbing. In one instance, electricians had to go through 22 inches of masonry to put in a wall plug. Now the last vestiges of the destroyed suites are several ornate stone fireplaces...