Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Last week, Seltsam issued to the public his first de Reszke discs: a part of the Forge Song from Wagner's Siegfried, a snatch of the aria O Paradiso from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. Both records sounded as if Tenor de Reszke were singing under water during a hurricane. Nevertheless, Seltsam's fellow antiquarians strained their ears reverently at every foggy syllable...
Andrew Carnegie-who was a practical man, but believed in pure science, and was especially fascinated by astronomy-set up the Institution in 1902. His total endowment was $22,000,000, since grown to $34,000,000. This week, the Institution completes its 1939 disbursements-from a total budget...
George M. Cohan, who has been a professional actor since he wore knee pants, went to see an amateur show last week. Far from being bored, he laughed, cried, made a speech. The show, called Yankee Doodle Boy and written and produced by the Harlequins of Washington's Catholic University, told the story of Cohan's life...
...creatures of Noel Coward's seven stories. In detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...