Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways he seemed like a throwback to the lumber barons, the cattle kings and the mining magnates who had ruled the West before him. Like them, he had seen the West as a vast, unfenced, unclaimed territory where a strong man could take what he wanted. Beck had wanted its roaming herds of labor. He rounded them up, hogtied them, and branded them by the thousands. He fought off Rustler Harry Bridges with one hand while piously rustling the herds of lesser unions with the other...
When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle's tough cops still took pride in using force sufficient to make an arrest, and dragged in many a prisoner by the heels...
...spite of the sagging market in men's clothing (as well as in some textiles and lumber), not even clothiers were ready to say last week that they had caught the first whiff of recession. But they (and other retailers) were keeping a worried eye on inventories. It was not so much that sales were falling off; it was that supplies were catching up with and in some lines even overtaking the public's need...
...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...
...average TIME-reading woman has charge accounts at two department stores (one also has a charge account at a lumber yard, another at a farm equipment dealer's). Her food bill last year was $27 a week (although 11% say it was over $40). She owns 4.6 cookbooks and tried out at least one new recipe last month, which "everybody" liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested...