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...inflation of the lungs resulting from the loss of elasticity in their deepest recesses. There the tiny alveoli, or gas-exchange cells, give up carbon dioxide and take in oxygen. Clustered around small arteries, they are so numerous that they create a huge area for gas exchange-about 85 sq. yds. in the average adult...
...places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record 13 billion sq. ft. To keep up, the two biggest U.S. plywood companies are launching major expansions. Georgia-Pacific Corp. has just announced plans to build new plants at Crossett, Ark., and Emporia, Va., and U.S. Plywood Corp. has broken ground for a new $3,000,000 mill at Hammond...
...industrial uses account for another 15%, but half of the nation's plywood now goes into housing. By aggressive promotion, self-imposed quality control and imaginative research to develop new uses for plywood, the industry has boosted the amount built into the average new home from 500 sq. ft. in 1950 to 2,700 sq. ft. last year. Even more remarkable, the cost of plywood has dropped 30% in a decade. Because recent floods in the Northwest did $50 million damage to the lumber and plywood industries, plywood prices have climbed $12 per thousand sq. ft. this month,.including...
...committee rooms of Congress, he painted frescoes of Washington at Valley Forge and The Battle of Lexington, and he adorned the corridors with landscapes, studies of wildlife and signs of the zodiac. His crowning achievement was the Capitol dome: 4,664 sq. ft. of concave fresco, with figures 15 ft. high, purposely distorted so that they would appear natural to spectators below. It took him eleven months to finish, lying on his back on a scaffold, 180 ft. above the floor...
...biggest "strip" number sends five girls onto the stage wearing American football helmets, shoulder pads, low-cut football shoes with white cleats, and not much else. Standing before a 48-sq.-ft. American flag, they do just a little bumping to show how they would perform as middle linebackers-all to the tune of Mr. Touchdown U.S.A...