Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of its worst lumber shortage, was not able to use Paul's fabulous devices. So last week OPA did what it could. It boosted manufacturers' price ceilings up from 3% to 10%, on almost all lumber used in housebuilding. Would this turn the trick...
This year the U.S. needs an estimated 36 billion board feet of lumber, a production mark last achieved in 1942. Since then, lumber production has been falling steadily. The deficit has been made up from mill and retail yard stockpiles. But now stockpiles are down to only five and a half billion board feet (see chart), and even this small amount is badly distributed. More than ever before, the U.S. will have to depend on what it actually logs. And the industry, which last year produced only 27 billion board feet, is now plagued with a bewildering array of afflictions...
Heavy snows kept Oregon lumber camps closed during most of January and February. Strikes crippled production in the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest and the redwoods of California. Everywhere, lumberjacks grown used to soft city ways in high-paying jobs in war plants were none too eager to head back to the low pay and hard life of the woods. Those who did go back found a lack of portable sawmills, crawler trucks, etc., although lately the Civilian Production Administration has been handing lumbermen priorities to get them...
...price has been the biggest problem. Mills, caught between rising costs and OPA ceilings on rough construction lumber, were concentrating on finished wood, where profits were higher. Yet rough construction lumber is what the U.S. needs most. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt's program to build 2,700,000 houses alone calls for nearly eight billion board feet this year...
...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...