Word: unicelled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gaily decorated siding under Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, railroad men saw something new in freight cars this week. It was the "Unicel," a gleaming white freight car made almost entirely of plywood. "This," said John I. Snyder, 40, chairman-president of the Pressed Steel Car Co., "is the first really new freight car built in the U.S. in half a century...
Railroaders gave the new car a polite wait & see reception, meanwhile went on ordering old-style cars (New York Central this week ordered $38 million worth of the standard type). But Snyder, who had put three years of research and $250,000 into Unicel, hoped to change their old habits, was betting that the new car would eventually revolutionize freight car building. In a rearming U.S., which would need all the steel and all the freight cars it could make, Snyder had one big fact on his side: plywood is not nearly as scarce as steel...
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