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...livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product was a good-looking, twin-engined plastic-and-plywood "Executive Transport" designed to carry eight, sell for $35.000. This ship was built on the West Coast before Globe was formed...
...need of spacious, speedy transport units to move personnel and equipment to combat areas. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. had a new answer on the drawing board: a mammoth transport plane, perhaps the world's largest of its type, made mainly of plywood and plastics...
...After years of experiment, ingenious North American Aviation has found a low-carbon, low-alloy steel suited for airplane wings, stabilizers, rudders, elevators, flaps and ailerons. Combined with a plywood fuselage, it makes a top-notch combat trainer, weighing only 3% (150 lb.) more than an aluminum ship. The aluminum saved on 1,000 steel-plywood jobs would make 420 sleek pursuit ships...
...this, $35,000,000 is for a plane unique in U.S. aviation history-the all-plywood bomber trainer AT-10. The AT-10 uses very little scarce aluminum or steel and can be turned out much faster than metal craft. Almost ready for full-scale production, Beech has subcontracted 30-40% of his plywood ship to companies like American Seating Co. (school and theater seats), Reed Roller Bit Co. (oil-well drills), Kansas City woodworking outfits...
...forms the base for practically all the plastics," explains the machine's inventor, Engineer Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. "Up to now it has had to be ground-a laborious process-and much of it came from Norway and Sweden." Within a few weeks, a plywood factory in Portland, Ore. sold several carloads of wood dust, a profitable by-product of purifying...