impish
Senior Member
Metal, ca 1950(?). Kept her recipes on index cards just fitting in perfectly. When my Mother died in 1986, I found a lot of hand-me-downs from use in my childhood by her. They have provided useful functionality for 50+ years!
Real eggs, decorated by hand by my Czech. Grandma. Each took hours to complete.
Sample of aircraft landing mat sawed off full piece of 2' X 10' length. My Dad built the die which blanked them out of 1/4 inch thick aluminum plate. The South Pacific Island of Tinian had hundreds of thousands of these pieces hooked together, to form a surface B-29s could use as a runway, over sand. He said the building shook when the punch press hammered it out. The die test was done in the Ford Aircraft Engine Plant in Chicago, where a few years later Tucker built his ill-fated cars. Seen the movie "Tucker: The Man and His Car"? 1990s. Starred Jeff Bridges.
