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Ground was broken in April. A Garden City lumber company donated $1,400 worth of material, a contractor in the parish furnished labor, as did other men from the church and community...
...C.C.A. will build a $16 million nitrogen plant at Lawrence, Kans. with $6,000,000 borrowed from C.C.A. members and the rest from the RFC. C.C.A. will also build a 5,000-barrel-a-day catalytic cracker for its refinery at Phillipsburg, Kans., open $1,000,000 worth of lumber kilns at its mill in Swisshome...
...After lumber, gypsum is the single most important U.S. building material. It is used for plaster, lath, walls, ceilings, insulation...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
Quick Dryer. The Wood Electric Kiln Co. of North Berwick, Me. demonstrated a time-saving electronic kiln for drying green lumber. By using kiln-drying combined with high-frequency radiation, lumber in Wood's kiln can be dried in as little as 15 hours, instead of the seven to eight days needed in the present steam-heated type kilns...