Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franciscan nun with a round, grandmotherly face stepped out of her office into the Los Angeles sunshine one morning last week, threaded her way between pieces of lumber and piles of bricks until she spotted a trowel. Picking it up, she laid a brick in businesslike fashion, smiled happily at the nearest bricklayer and said: "Thank God it is going...
Panel House. To boost lumber sales, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association put on its first big national show in New York last week, and displayed the new "Lu-Re-Co" (for Lumber Research Council) house of pre-built panels. To show how easily the house can be put up (at an estimated 25% reduction in labor costs), the association built three of them on the spot (see cut). It has been selling plans for five different Lu-Re-Co three-bedroom houses ranging from $12,500 to $13,500, expects that more than 2,500 of them will...
Neatly dressed in gabardine slacks and lightweight lumber jacket, a battered copy of Reader's Digest clutched in his hands, Prisoner Luis Taruc stood before the bar of justice in Manila last week. The man who had led the bloody, Communist Huk rebellion for eight years heard his sentence: twelve years in jail, a $10,000 fine. Taruc beamed, relatives happily pounded his back, bussed his cheeks. Then, with colossal effrontery, the rebel leader announced: "I can take anything for the sake of the peace of our country...
...LUMBER STRIKE, which started 2½ months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
...couldn't resist mailing you a picture of my do-it-yourself husband's project [see cut]. A nine-room ranchstyle house he has designed and built in the last seven years, using only weekend and holiday hours. Built of old used lumber, from railroad boxcars, which had to be cleaned and stripped of nails. Included in the construction are two fireplaces and one chimney for inside barbecue which required around 3,000 bricks . . . The house has 57 windows . . . one 15-ft.-by-20-ft. basement for furnace and shower, and one 12-ft.-by-12-ft. storm...