Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housing market, already clipping along toward 1,050,000 new housing starts this year. Its goal: to raise the totals by another 100,000 houses, create 500,000 new jobs this year, and lay a solid floor under those sagging industries that lean heavily on home construction-appliances, lumber, transport...
...swarmed into mines, farms, factories. Forty percent of the scientists and engineers added to Canada's working force since 1950 were foreign-born; last year's newcomers included 1,838 teachers, 635 physicians, 54,376 skilled workers. Immigrants founded one of the West Coast's major lumber companies; another immigrant developed the nation's biggest uranium mine. Foreign-born artists organized new ballet companies in Toronto and Winnipeg, wrote some of Canada's best postwar books...
...earth of the Ukrainian steppes, she came to the U.S. with her parents when she was four, settled with them in Rockland, Me., where the interlocking arms of heavy timber and the gentle twigs of rocky bush excited her imagination. While her family made a good living out of lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, then went to Germany, where she worked (in 1931) with Painter Hans Hofmann. In 1940 Karl Nierendorf (who championed...
...force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring to the lumber business...
...nonpolitical council, whose corporate members range from huge General Motors to small Insular Lumber Co., called for an increased flow of private U.S. capital abroad, more lending authority for the Government's Export-Import Bank. It also put itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...