Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them right up to Jerry Land. Samples: 1) South Portland Ship's contract for yard facilities has no limit on time, almost none on costs; 2) the company lacked skilled managers, promoted green laborers to superintendents in five months; 3) because of sloppy records 75 carloads too much lumber were delivered and had to be paid for by the Maritime Commission; 4) as much as $1,500 a month each was paid for renting cranes, pumps, compressors on a time-used basis but no time record.was kept; 5) a director's friend supplied trucks...
...counts upon Mexico for 45% of its requirements of graphite, 33% of its antimony, 40% of its sisal and henequen, 19% of its lead, a growing portion of its lumber (particularly mahogany, for plywood planes), plus important fractions of its needs for molybdenum, mercury, cobalt, manganese, mica, tungsten, tin, vanadium. This year Mexico will ship the U.S. some 400,000 tons of these metals alone; next year the figure should rise to nearly 2,000,000 tons...
...American aviation all over the world and the imminence of hourly flights from New York to London. They were among the first to point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage, and the nonexistence of the wool shortage. They foresaw the nationwide crisis in small business and the Washington chaos in raw materials. And months ago they showed that by year's end manpower would emerge as "the one big barrier holding back the U.S. war effort...
Every man of fightin' age in the lumber town of D'Lo, Miss. (pop. 400), is a fightin...
...sets in any one picture. To movie directors who once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...