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...Pacific Northwest. It takes Douglas firs 80 years to mature, and some still waiting to be cut were young when Paul Revere made his midnight ride. Timber's unique "lead time" is a constant concern of the 63-year-old Weyerhaeuser Co., which turns out more lumber and wood products than any other company in the $6 billion industry that provides raw material for U.S. homes, newsprint, boats, containers and furniture...
Western railroads complain bitterly that, since so many terminals for their shipments are in the East, Eastern railroads are the major offenders. They charge that Eastern boxcar-napping has produced a shortage of cars for moving grain and lumber...
Holes in One. Miniature golf, idiot's delight of the Depression years, is also coming back strong. In the 19303, Tom Thumb courses sprouted in everybody's vacant lot, set up for about $30 in cash, some scrap lumber and a can of paint. Today they tend to be elaborate and mass-produced, leased on a franchise basis...
...more important economic point is that regardless of the resources of the wild regions, the country's lumber, mining, and grazing needs can easily be met by other lands now open to commercial use. In 1961 commercial tracts in the national forest grew about one billion more board feet of lumber than was cut. Existing mines are able to produce excess supplies of almost all indigenous metals and minerals. Finally, an Interior Department study has shown that proper management of present grazing lands could yield in fifty years a 250% increase of forage...
...turn of the century, Houston was an unpromising backlands town. Then, in 1915, after the ship channel was dredged, the Port of Houston was opened, and the city became a busy cotton and lumber center. It now ranks as the third largest port in the U.S. (behind New York and New Orleans). In the 1920s, oil discoveries near by set off an oil boom that has never ended. When the U.S. war machine needed rubber during World War II. Houston turned to the area's oil, salt and sulphur resources and built massive petrochemical plants to produce synthetics...