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BUILDING costs are heading downward. Pacific Northwest lumber mills, feeling the pinch of Canadian competition, have cut prices as much as 25% in the past year. In Oregon and Washington, more than 150 lumber mills are so overstocked that they have curtailed operations or closed down entirely...
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...size of West Virginia and as populous (2,056,000), Latvia is flat and forested, drained into the Baltic by the sprawling Western Dvina River, which brings wheat, dairy products and lumber down to the capital city of Riga (pop. 393,000). Over the centuries, the hardy Latvian peasants have been trampled underfoot by Viking raiders, Teutonic knights and Hansa merchantmen, Swedes, Poles, Germans and Great Russians. They have known only 22 years of national independence (from 1918 until 1940, when the Red army marched in), but the U.S. still technically recognizes their nonexistent sovereignty. Said President Roosevelt...
Ryderwood, in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Range, was a model town when it was built in 1923 by the Long-Bell Lumber Co. Founder Robert Alexander Long, whose motto was "Be of service, even if it is necessary to go out of your way," wanted his lumberjacks to be able to live with their families the year around. He spent $1,500,000 to build 400 sturdy, cellarless frame houses (all painted grey), three stores, a school, a church, a modern sewage-disposal plant, a community heating plant and a water system...
Dilapidated and wobbly as it is, the grotesque Japanese pagoda is the year-round headquarters for the $85,000-a-year rowing industry. When the crew returns from lumber mills and yacht clubs in September, it removes the 18 long, slim shells from the racks and rows every day until ice forms on the river. Then the Oriental barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew...