Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Harpo Marx's ogling of the girls. No sooner has Ray Bolger done some hilarious hoofing than hard-working Gracie Fields sings Albert Hay Malotte's soulful version of The Lord's Prayer. No sooner has Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria...
...Under wartime restrictions the panels are made of celotex and wallboard. But they could be made of any material. Having no weight-carrying walls, the Wiener-Sert system uses only about 50% of the structural lumber and 80% of the metal permitted...
From Northwest lumber camps came threats of shutdowns unless lumberjacks get more red meat. But if OPA made an exception, it might have to do the same for other manual laborers...
...dock Commander Higbee found a puddle of oil, threw a cigaret in it, watched it blaze, ordered a coxswain to put it out. Then on a dry lumber stack near by he pinned his card: "Dear Watchman: I was here; where were...
This year, with operations stepped up still further, Consolidated Timber hopes to take out more than a billion feet-one-sixth of the U.S. 1942 lumber "deficit." By 1945, when lumbermen expect that the bugs will have taken over what remains of the old stand, Consolidated's nursery at Nisqually, Wash, (which turns out 10,000,000 seedlings a year) should be well on the way to reforesting Tillamook...