Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DETROIT AT MIDDAY is strikingly quiet. It is a city of 1.5 million people--but it seems devoid of the characteristic noise and bustle. There is relatively little automobile traffic. City buses lumber about, half-empty. Almost no one shops in the re-developed shopping plazas. And there are no guests in the castle-like Renaissance Center hotel complex, which stands over the Motor City like a gleaming caricature of "urban revitalization." Detroit is not thriving: it resembles nothing so much as an empty shell. And it is empty, too, of hope for the unemployed who line the streets, selling...
...business-page headlines last week were a relentless reminder of the gathering force of the current U.S. recession. With each passing day, the industrial landscape is increasingly marred by padlocked factory gates and smokeless smokestacks. Spreading from cotton mills in Georgia to lumber camps in Oregon, the slump has swiftly swelled the ranks of the jobless. The Labor Department announced last week that November's unemployment rate rose again, to 8.4%, the highest level in six years, up from 8% in October and 7% in July. This means that about 9 million Americans and their families are facing...
Industries that provide materials to the automakers and homebuilders are also in serious trouble. Steel companies have idled about 50,000 employees, and the rubber industry has laid off some 10,000. The timber business has toppled. In Oregon alone, 22,000 lumber workers have lost their jobs. Governor Victor Atiyeh has declared the industry to be in a "state of emergency" in an effort to qualify local businessmen for federal relief loans...
Lundgren sets out with the family Airedale, a dim, stubborn beast named Hudley who drinks by submerging his head and opening his mouth. An uncertain backwoods cunning helps the make-believe p.i. collar the lumber rustlers, so it's on to Florida to deal with Dr. Rabun's wife...
...usual stacks of lumber are occupying Leverett Old Library these days as Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, one of several House shows moving from the audition-and-bookwork stage to the run-through, starts to take shape...