Word: bd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific Northwest lumber industry, in a price recession since July, noted a turn-around in buying for 1960 construction. Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week...
...subject to corrosion was announced by Pittsburgh Corning Corp. Expected to have wide use in the aeronautical field and also in nuclear energy installations (where its nonabsorptive nature keeps it from acting as a wick), Foamsil may also turn up as insulation in home electric appliances. Cost: 50? per bd...
Edward Robin: Adams; House Comm., Treas.; U.N. Council, Exec. Bd.; HYDC, Treas.; UN Collegiate Council, Mass. Chair...
...Million in Chips. The forest industries have been forced to branch into new products as per-capita lumber consumption has dropped (down to 256 bd. ft. in 1955 from 504 in 1904) and timberland prices soared (up as much as 1,700% in 18 years). Many companies have also diversified to make full use of their tim ber reserves, e.g., western alder, long bypassed when redwood and Douglas fir forests were logged solely for lumber, is now widely cut for wood pulp...
Many companies are merging to assure long-term lumber supplies. Georgia-Pacific last week took an option on a "substantial majority" of stock (at $310 a share) in California's Hammond Lumber Co., thus gained control of 3.5 billion bd. ft. of timber. Biggest merger yet is now being negotiated by International Paper Co., biggest U.S. papermaker, and Kansas City's Long-Bell Lumber Co., No. 2 lumber producer (after Weyerhaeuser...