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Like many another farmer in western Washington's Satsop Valley, Albert Kuhlne pastured his cattle along a grass-grown waste of charred logs and blackberry thickets-the scorched remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...
...retrospection and prophecy of the top floor, crammed with pretzel-shaped, chair-sized chips of plywood (to demonstrate the versatility of wood molders); pat-the-bunny samples of various materials; early modern chairs whose box-kitelike form suggested early abstract paintings-and a chair whose fishnet seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter...
...first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation of nitrate of lead, industrial electrolysis of alkali chlorids...
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...
...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...