Word: lumber
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...German submarines sank Allied shipping at an appalling rate during World War II, Hughes advocated the building of a gigantic airplane that could fly troops and cargo to the battle zones far above the reach of U-boats. Since metal was in short supply, he constructed his plane from lumber; hence its nickname, the Spruce Goose. Working in a mammoth hangar, which still stands at a Hughes plant in Culver City, Calif., Hughes built the huge eight-engine flying boat, which was as big as today's Boeing...
...canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...
...words of one state politician, "like Gomer Pyle at the Second Coming." Then, under federal court order, the yellow school buses began to integrate schools in Louisville and the rest of Jefferson County, and suddenly Carroll was sharply challenged by Republican Robert E. Gable, 41, a coal and lumber millionaire...
...Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of the New York economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, suggests that the real annual rate of increase may be only about half the 23.9% reported. Still, the October jump was disquieting: it involved not only metals and cars but also farm products, lumber, textiles, clothing, furniture and household durables, all of which climbed substantially in price. For 1976, the Administration is predicting a rise in consumer prices of less than...
Llano must have been near Grabow, though, and I know that 20 years earlier Covington Hall had lived there too. Perhaps he had stayed somewhere in the huge lumber camps, for he had been organizing the workers there, goading them into rebellion, publishing a paper called The Voice of the People. The workers had strck: the Galloway Lumber Company, which owned the town, had posted armed guards; and on a hot summer day in 1912 the strikers and guards had gotten into a shooting match that left three dead and 48 wounded. Perhaps the Galloway lumber camps are, there...