Word: lumber
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Also intended for Back Bay is Bill Jacobson's wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
...time oil companies m using computers to make geological surveys, the company soon gained a reputation for cutting exploration costs. King began marketing his firm's cost-cutting knowledge to other companies and individuals. Today King Resources offers complex leasing and development deals for oil, gas, water, lumber and other resources...
Oregon's economy, heavily dependent on lumber, has been shaken to the roots by the fall in home building. Unemployment has scaled an eight-year high of 5.3%. Department-store sales are off 9% from last year, and a significant decline in tax collections has forced the state government to freeze all construction projects...
Twenty miles northwest of Augusta in hilly farm country, Mount Vernon is too poor to be a traditionally quaint New England town. At the start of the century, it had a flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where...
Present plans call for selling diseased ponderosas to lumber companies and replacing them with nearly 70,000 giant Sequoia and sugar pine trees, which are thought to be more resistant to smog. Meantime, the smog rolls on, doubtless affecting the forest in other ways that are not yet known...