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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: all other materials and facilities (e.g., lumber, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals...
Present military requirements for most building materials are limited. The armed forces now expect to need only 1.5 billion board feet of lumber for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951-about one week's supply for the housing industry. "The present shortage of lumber and other major building items is largely a temporary condition caused by seasonal factors," said Coogan. "Plenty of lumber will be available shortly...
...closing fees. He also slashed by 5% the amount of FHA mortgage insurance available for non-G.I. buyers. (The immediate effect was to start a rush to buy homes, and the scare sent house prices rising.) The President was hoping to divert to war uses some of the lumber, steel, aluminum and other scarce materials now going into housing...
...including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...
...When lumber was scarce, Bill Levitt had plenty; he had bought Western timberlands and a mill to supply him. When nails were short, he set up his own nail-making plant, made enough to sell to outsiders. When Congress lifted a veterans' priority clause, Levitt announced that vets would still come first at Levittown, thus had a potent lobby to work for him whenever he ran up against local building restrictions or Washington bureaucrats...