Word: wood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughly the feeling experienced by the valedictorian of Wood-row Wilson H. S. when he discovers all the other valedictorians in his college freshman class. Golf-playing vice presidents, Army majors, men who never read anything weightier than Time suddenly find themselves thrown together to study, discuss, and (as one troubled AMP expressed it) "read, read, read...
...Electric Way. Traditionally, dies and similar metal products have been made by the slow process of grinding away the metal to fit a pattern. Using the Elox method, a die shape can be formed first in wood or plaster, then sprayed with a soft metal. When the metal hardens, it is used as an electrode, i.e., conducts the electric current. When the electrode is placed close to a piece of metal and the current applied, the metal is vaporized to the same shape as the electrode pattern. With this process the hardest metals have been shaped as easily as cast...
...when a gag cuts sharp as a razor, or a prop turns into a vise. But a situation that never develops the slightest bit of story has to be relentlessly kept going with comic-strip characters and hit-or-miss gags. Worse, loud and obvious staging that only Peggy Wood knows how to rise above underlines everything that is tiresome, or tinny, or both. Actually, The Girls in 509 has just enough winning gags and gadgets for a topnotch revue skit. In its present form, Playwright Teichmann, having come up with a bright idea, clung to it until it pulled...
...Masonite wall sections prefinished inside and out with built-in insulation, ready for quick raising at the site. The outside hardboard surface is wood composition, the inside plastic-coated. Soundproof ceilings also come in composition sections with insulation pre-attached. An exterior paint made by Du Pont lasts 20 years, sharply cuts maintenance costs...
...Ceiling-to-floor (8 ft.) doors and windows that simplify building. They also improve air circulation, make the house's six rooms seem much more spacious. Another cost-cutter: African-oak floor squares laid directly on the concrete foundation slab; they are only half as thick as ordinary wood parquet flooring yet are just as durable...