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Facilities of the laboratory designed by Vallee and his staff, make the greatest utilization of structural features of the building. Central building supports, for example, have been encased in brich plywood and contain the laboratory service outlets. Electrical outlets swing from the lowered and sound-proofed ceilings on double ball sockets...
...Beginning. No light came from the windows of an apartment at 10630 South Bensley; none has for months. But there were people there. Behind the plywood barrier set up to protect them from bricks and stones were Donald Howard, his wife and their two small children, going about their nightly routine, dinner, the television, bedtime for the kids. So they have been living for many weeks. The Howards are Negroes, the first of their race to become tenants in Trumbull Park. They got the apartment last summer partly because a state law forbids discrimination in public housing, partly because their...
...little Manhattan glue and plywood store, one day in 1921, Proprietor Lawrence Ottinger turned to a 20-year-old helper and said : "Tony, there's a great future in this business. It's barely starting, and you're right on the ground floor with me." On the boss's advice, young S. W. ("Tony") Antoville, a Columbia University student, gave up his plans to go to law school, kept his job in the store and insured his future. As the U.S. Plywood Corp. (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950), Lawrence Ottinger's little store became the biggest...
Antoville plans to keep U.S. Plywood's sales rising with such products as Novoply, a composition board made from wood chips and shavings, and Zeprex, a Swedish-developed building material (made of cement, water and chemicals) that looks like concrete but can be sawed, chopped and nailed. Another U.S. Plywood plan for expansion: invasion of the wholesale lumber field, using logs cut from its own forests but not suitable for plywood...
...Reichhold has branched out into other fields. A few years ago he went into the manufacture of bonding resins (for plywood, plastics, foundry cores). His chemicals go into refrigerators, glass wool, food boxes, bubble...