Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learning other things-simple, sense-making military things that are as important on the field of battle as know-how on a production line. His repair cars now come right up to battle zones, often work on disabled tanks during battle. His huge salvage wagons, with their cranes, lumber up as soon as night falls, pick up wrecks-British as well as German-and carry them back to workshops housed in blacked-out tents...
...termite trouble may become worse. There is constant danger that new varieties will be imported (the U.S. has already exported several varieties of termites in lumber to Europe, where only two native types occur). But most scientists doubt that the termite and other social insects will conquer man and dominate the earth, despite the fears of Novelist H. G. Wells. Reason: limitations of their breathing apparatus...
...learning other things-simple, sense-making military things that are as important on the field of battle as know-how on a production line. His repair cars now come right up to battle zones, often work on disabled tanks during battle. His huge salvage wagons, with their cranes, lumber up as soon as night falls, pick up wrecks-British as well as German-and carry them back to workshops housed in blacked-out tents...
...Lumber stocks on June 6 were only 2.6 billion board feet, against 3.1 billion a year before. Prospect now is that civilians will soon find lumber almost as hard to buy as rubber...
Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...