Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solve the problem of fire prevention, engineers treated all wood used in the stands with a special fire-resistent chemical. In all, 200,000 board feet of lumber, 650 tons of structural steel, and 200,000 bolts, nuts, and screws went into the making of the additional stands...
...rising with such products as Novoply, a composition board made from wood chips and shavings, and Zeprex, a Swedish-developed building material (made of cement, water and chemicals) that looks like concrete but can be sawed, chopped and nailed. Another U.S. Plywood plan for expansion: invasion of the wholesale lumber field, using logs cut from its own forests but not suitable for plywood...
Many of Ruml's suggestions were not new. "It's just taking a lot of old lumber and a few nails," said he, "and making something out of them." To many a conservative Congressman, the Ruml plan seemed little more than a bookkeeping operation, reminiscent of the New Deal's brain-trust days. Admitted Ruml: "It's a bookkeeping operation, but not 'just' a bookkeeping operation. It may be that in these years the splitting of the budget is more important than splitting the atom. We can't have a free economy with...
BUILDING costs are heading downward. Pacific Northwest lumber mills, feeling the pinch of Canadian competition, have cut prices as much as 25% in the past year. In Oregon and Washington, more than 150 lumber mills are so overstocked that they have curtailed operations or closed down entirely...
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