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...water resources is a "must." Yet our productive topsoil that feeds half the. world is eroding away. Clear water streams that industries need for production are clouded with pollution and silt. Water that is needed for food production is lost in floods . . . We continue to cut more trees for lumber than we plant. In other words, the nation's most valuable strength is ebbing away-and needlessly, because most of these resources are renewable, unlike oil and iron...
South Korea's refugees-currently estimated at 2,500,000 to 3,500,000-must somehow be kept alive. The U.S. Army's Civil Assistance Command has the backbreaking, heartbreaking job of doing it. In addition to food and medical supplies, CAC is shipping in lumber for housing and fertilizer for the rice crop. This year's rice crop will probably be 50% of normal...
...Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
...Members included Ralph Walker, president of the American Institute of Architects, Clark Daniel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders' Design & Construction Committee, James Price, president of the National Homes Corp., Richard Kimbell, technical director of the National Lumber Mfrs. Association, B. L. Wood, director of research for the American Iron & Steel Institute...
...More than a billion dollars a year could be saved by standardizing the industry's crazy quilt of odd sizes of materials. ¶ Foundations required for one-story houses are far in excess of any real need. ¶ Practically every small house is structurally overdesigned (i.e., wastes lumber). ¶ Standard, prefabricated plumbing assemblies could save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper...