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...fir and oak-bearded hills were heavy with wet and the rain and sleet gathered great churning white heads and came roaring down. Swollen rivers rose first in the Pittsburgh industrial regions, then in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: War and High Water | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...lighted candles beckoned from the windows on Boston's stately Louisburg Square; the all-but-actual stage sets which lit up the facades of Hollywood homes last year were dark. Few firecrackers sputtered on the South's sunlit streets; no lights shone from the giant fir trees in the thousands of village squares. Christmas, 1942, had moved indoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas: 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...provide plywood planes and gliders on a mass-production basis for the Navy. 2) In New York City, a group of plastics manufacturers formed the Plastic War Production Association, will pool machinery and knowledge. 3) WPB this week issued an order providing for complete allocation of Douglas fir among high priority holders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Plywood Shortage | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Plyline Knock-Down chairs are as comfortable as anything Grandfather lounged in. He has emphasized one branch of functionalism a lot of modern furniture designers forget about: the buyer's pocketbook. More stylish than Cooper's furniture, Designer Coggeshall's is built with handsome but inexpensive fir or birch. Like Cooper's, his chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages. A Coggeshall dining table costs $12.50; coffee table, $3.50; chair, from $2.50 to $5. Coggeshall's proudest achievement: a $3.50 table, cut from a single piece of plywood. It stands without benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furniture in Capsules | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Colorado Springs, 100 Colorado Scouts are transplanting 1,000,000 fir, spruce and pine seedlings for the Pike National Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boy Scouts at War | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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