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...difficult. Boeing's Flying Fortress plant was sandwiched between busy Boeing Field and a natural landmark, the Duwamish River. Camoufleurs hid the field so trickily that veteran pilots had to ask the way in. Atop the Boeing plant went a 26-acre village made of chicken wire, canvas, lumber, painted chicken feathers. The town had 53 houses, stores, a gas station. Some of its streets crossed the field, went up Beacon Hill. The camoufleurs skipped the river...
...much as they want on a catch-as-catch-can basis. This will not be possible with autos, because the industry is so greedy for steel that other industries would be crowded out. Nor will it be possible with the construction industry, which is equally greedy with lumber...
...Fighters. His answer was in the endless columns of U.S. supply trucks, jeeps, tanks, artillery and bulldozers rumbling down from Balete Pass through dust and mud. It was in the roads punched out of mountain sides while the battles went on, in the bridges built, the airstrips rolled, the lumber cut, the dirt hauled by the engineers. He would also find it in the muddy, lined, unshaven faces of the infantrymen, seasoned fighters who beat mountains, jungles and rain as well as Japanese. What the Americans had better than Bushido was fighting heart and unmatched ability to fight an engineers...
...prospered. As his herds grew, so did his scale of living. He built himself a mansion which was the showplace of Wyoming: a 20-room structure of brownstone and pine lumber with a towering cupola, newfangled plumbing and acetylene lights. Impressed, the Indians took to calling him the Big Father, his house the Big Tepee. But the Big Tepee was only a beginning. To house his 200 employes the Big Father built a town, with hotel, saloon, store and school, incorporated it as Lost Cabin, Wyo. He made himself mayor, carried a deputy sheriff's badge...
...repairs or new construction, got the go-ahead-if-you-can sign to spend $1,000 on a one-family house, $2,000 on a three-and up to $5,000 on a five-family house. But most expenditures would be in repairs, and most repairs would require lumber - which is shorter than ever. (The U.S. construction industry was also told that it could begin preliminary earth moving operations for new projects without WPB authorization - if no lumber or other construction materials except drainage pipe were required...