Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicopters shuttled wallboard and lumber from the chasm's edge down to the canyon floor, a group of 50 Havasupai near by never once looked toward the landing field. Most were too busy picking through a two-ton load of used clothing dropped into the reservation semiannually...
Toward a Million. The oil companies want bigger tankers because huge capacity makes it economical for their ships to bypass the blocked Suez Canal and lumber around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe or the Americas. The transport costs run to about 400 per bbl. in a 200,000-d.w.t. ship, compared with 520 in a 70,000-tonner. Each big ship can save a company about $1,000,000 a year in hauling costs...
Consumer prices may rise more slowly in the months ahead. One indication is that wholesale prices were moving up only modestly during April, in contrast with strong advances during several earlier months. Softwood lumber prices, for example, jumped by 61% in March, but have begun falling again. For the moment, however, high prices are hurting not only the consumer but the exporter. The U.S. balance of payments, which was $990 million in the black at the end of last year, is expected to show a large deficit for the first quarter of the year. The important trade balance...
...seem reasonable that there should be "federal limitations on logging operations" on national forests so that the forests can add stability and a sustained yield of water, wildlife, recreation and forage, as well as wood, for people now and in future generations? Why not put the blame for high lumber and plywood prices where it belongs- on the market-managing lumber and plywood industries...
...time being, Congress will probably content itself with imposing further limitations on lumber exports to Japan. Such restrictions should help to relieve the shortage and ease prices. On the other hand, they would undercut Washington's goals of fostering free world trade and improving the U.S.'s balance of trade. In any case, Congress can scarcely overlook the need to revamp the nation's timber management policies. That is something that Washington has not done for 30 years...