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...anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts...
...Danish factory which has made blood albumin for use as adhesive in plywood is now turning to the manufacture of dried-blood powder and plasma for use in the food industry...
...counts upon Mexico for 45% of its requirements of graphite, 33% of its antimony, 40% of its sisal and henequen, 19% of its lead, a growing portion of its lumber (particularly mahogany, for plywood planes), plus important fractions of its needs for molybdenum, mercury, cobalt, manganese, mica, tungsten, tin, vanadium. This year Mexico will ship the U.S. some 400,000 tons of these metals alone; next year the figure should rise to nearly 2,000,000 tons...
...rough cast iron with plastic handles. Some toilet fixtures have glass pipes. There are no bathtubs or private bathrooms, just showers in central bathrooms. Only lighting facilities are wall plugs for wood-stemmed, paper-shaded floor lamps (one for every man). Bedsprings have wooden bases. Interior walls are mainly plywood...
With all this up the sleeves of his dark red shirts, Higgins figures he will have his first plywood plane in the air six months after the Army gives him the final...