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...more than 2,000,000 tons a year. Her shipyards could replace only 1,000,000 in steel hulls. Her emergency program for wooden ships, 100 to 300 tons, was a flop; they were good only for Inland Sea and intercoastal traffic. Short of oil, minerals, food, even lumber, the Empire was in a pinch...
...During the camp-construction program millions were spent for bulldozers, tractors, trucks, cranes, lumber, etc., the Army & Navy competing for this equipment." Their competition boosted the price of lumber more than $10 per thousand board feet, cost the nation...
...increase of 35% since 1940, while another in the same field has had only a 6% increase. Like differentials apply between industries: the hourly wage rates in autos are up 9.6%, in refrigerators 17.4%, in building materials 19.4% over prewar rates. Steel is the same price as in 1942, lumber is 15% higher, cement is 3% higher...
...John R. Mott was converted to the gospel according to George Williams in his home town, Postville, Iowa, where his father was a lumber merchant. By the time he graduated from Cornell University (1888), he had become student secretary of the Association's International Committee, soon became its U.S. general secretary. In 1926 he was made chairman of the Y.M.C.A.'s World Committee. Outside the Y, Dr. Mott organized the International Missionary Council and was its chairman from...
...Zarubins will occupy 20 of the 32 rooms in the Embassy building, which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...