Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surrounded Marines at Khe Sanh, life is dreary days of digging deeper in their trenches and bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact that they...
...rundown structures, and he was able to buy the wood for the cost of pulling down the barn ($200 to $400). "But the farmer gets sophisticated pretty fast in New Hampshire and Vermont," says Janinski, "and today the weathered timber costs up to three times as much as new lumber...
...barns disappear, big lumber companies are rough-sawing plywood and mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...
...scene changes to Rochester to see how people react. And they react like animals. A beefy homeowner proudly points to his homemade sandbag shelter and, lying next to it, a shotgun for use on neighbors who try to push their way in. (The average family, as building contractors and lumber dealers push up prices, can afforod one sandbag and a few boards...
...figures do not even begin to reflect many increases announced over the past several weeks. Since the beginning of August, higher prices have been posted in film, trucks, lumber, aluminum sheet, color TV sets, rubber tires and many electrical appliances. Hardly a day goes by without new rises in one chemical or another. Last week it was liquid chlorine (used in bleaches, paper, textiles) and glycerine (paint, explosives), which got an average 3% price boost by Dow Chemical...