Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply the A.A.F., Air Serviee Command operates 300 warehouses containing half a million different items, ships out nine tons of aviation supplies (not including food) a month per pilot overseas. A.S.C.'s enterprises encircle the globe, are frequently masterpieces of improvisation. In New Guinea the "Thick & Thin Lumber Co.," created from a wrecked plane, two wrecked trucks, a worn-out tractor and machinery from an abandoned copper mine, turned out finished lumber by board-foot thousands...
Full Manhood. If that happens, Alcoa will not be caught napping. It has been considering a deal to buy San Francisco's Pope & Talbot Inc., the West Coast's third biggest lumber and shipping concern, operator of Alcoa's Pacific fleet of nine ships. Through such a deal, Alcoa would acquire: 1) enough ships to water-haul alumina from its Mobile, Ala. plant to the West Coast, thereby saving enough on rail costs to cut prices; 2) huge clay deposits near Castle Rock, Wash., where it could set up its own alumina-from-clay plant...
Young (33), wealthy (Manhattan lumber companies and marriage) and blatantly self-confident, Bill Cox had bought the Phillies after they had finished last or next to last for ten years, were all but bankrupt and the joke of the National League...
...best of these war babies is the Carnation Lumber Supply Co. in Carnation (pop. 400), in Washington's Snoqualmie Valley, some 35 miles from Seattle. Father of the baby is chunky, inventive Claire W. Austin, 34. In the spring of '42, he quit his carpenter's job in Seattle's Grandy Shipyards after he got a $35 Army order for wooden letter trays. Soon he landed a bigger order for a desk he designed. He also designed special jigs and fixtures, so that beginners could turn out good cabinet work...
...Russians the terms are clear: resumption of the frontier established in 1940 after the first Russo-Finnish War. If the Finns could have Viipuri back and the Saimaa Canal which floats lumber to the Gulf of Finland, many believed they would accept these terms. Paasikivi was the only Finn with a chance of talking Stalin out of Viipuri...