Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...
Born in Hungary, Sepeshy came to the U.S. in 1921, spent some ten years house painting, lumber stacking and window dressing, finally married a girl "as blonde and as genuine as a sand dune," and discovered to his surprise that he could make a living and even support a family (two children) by teaching art. Now he heads the Department of Painting at Michigan's progressive Cranbrook Academy. It was a teacher who gave Sepeshy his first incentive to become an artist. "If I hadn't wanted to 'show' that drawing teacher who had flunked...
...Washington, Government officials talked of a coal shortage in many cities this winter. U.S. coal production was off so much that adequate stockpiles for winter could not be built up. In Oregon, some lumber mills had so much wood stacked around that they had to close for lack of storage space...
Tomorrow at the usual time and place Dunster House will face the powerful Deacons from Kirkland while Eliot's mastodons lumber out against the see-and Freshman team in a practice game...
...Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and Admiral William F. Halsey. They will raise $1,000,000 in capital to form the Liberia Co., jointly owned with the Liberian Government. This company, in turn, will form up to 20 different subsidiaries to develop Liberia's iron ore, cocoa, lumber and other resources...