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...merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...
...Another Thin Man (Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith, Sheldon Leonard, Asta; TIME...
Radio's Aylesworth held his job for ten years, saw NBC evolve from a thin strand across the continent, linking a few stations, into a powerful network with two transcontinental chains and a host of international ramifications...
Weight for weight, the strongest structural material in the world is not steel or any other metal but "an improbable sandwich"-two or more thin sheets of wood pressed together with glue between. This is plywood. In an article describing plywood and its modern technology, FORTUNE last week declared that new plywoods are as different from old "as a 1940 automobile from a vintage of 1910." Plywood is at least as old as 1900 B. C.-for a mummy case dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue...
Plywood is made by putting a big log into a peeling machine, which strips off the thin wood sheets like wrapping paper from a roll. When the sheets are cut to size, the sandwiches are made in presses which deliver squeezes up to 200 Ib. per sq. in. The San Francisco World's Fair, which accounted for 10,000,000 sq. ft. of fir plywood, used plywood 29 layers thick for parts of its Colonnade of States...