Word: bd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lumbermen will pry valuable industrial products from more than 2 billion bd. ft. of left-over wood (enough for 200,000 homes) that would have been abandoned ten years...
...railroads, few have branched out into more off-track business than the Southern Pacific. It runs a 22-acre produce market in Los Angeles, sold 47.5 million bd. ft. of timber from its 430,000 acres of tree farms last year, has a corps of drivers who pick up every General Motors car produced in California and deliver it to dealers. It was one of the first railroads to start a bus line; it has more truck-line routes than track mileage, and it has even tried to sell airline tickets at its whistle-stop stations. Last week the Southern...
WILLIAM E. BOEING, founder of Boeing Airplane Co. (TIME, July 19), who retired in 1934 to devote all his time to his lumber business, has just closed one of the Northwest's biggest timber deals. For $13 million, Boeing has sold his 23,000-acre tract (1 billion bd. ft.) of fir along the Oregon coast to Georgia-Pacific Plywood...