Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrangle did not make up. Both parties have plunged into conference. At week's end the only other important strikes unsettled were a two-week-old fight in the Northwest, where a dispute between A. F. of L. sawmill workers and mill owners tied up delivery of lumber needed for defense construction, and a walkout last week of C. I. O. workers in Aluminum Co.'s plant in New Kensington...
...labor. The National Industrial Conference Board reported that 13 of the 25 industries it surveys monthly are now forced to pay overtime wages because they haven't enough workers to go around 40 hours a week. (Latest industries to start operating over 40 hours a week: electrical manufacturing, lumber & millwork, paper & pulp.) Last week too the U. S. Civil Service Commission was scouting for 600 skilled workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will...
...Declaration of war found the military departments unprepared. The 32 great cantonments for U. S. soldiers and additions to regular Army barracks had to be wastefully rushed (cost: $273,000,000); the 16 used for drafted men cost twice what they should have. There were bottlenecks in labor and lumber, a shortage of competent foremen, towering bills for overtime. Toward the end, workers were imported from Puerto Rico and the West Indies. Result of all the rush was a set of unsightly buildings that for the most part came down, for salvage, after war was over...
Other non-munitions exporters to Japan are lumber and pulp men on the Pacific coast. Their Japanese pulp market, especially rayon pulp, normally accounts for a healthy margin of their business. But lumber and pulp men were not losing much sleep last week. Already oversold, they figured on remaining oversold as long as Scandinavian exports are cut off. Also unruffled were coppermen. Their exports to Japan last year were $27,567,000, 15% of output; but the copper market is even tighter than the lumber market, doling out new supplies to defense-favored customers only. Another key Japanese supplier...
...tank trucks, impressive six-wheelers. New Federals include a square, unstreamlined ¾-ton unit for city deliveries, others up to 20 tons. The radiators on the new Four Wheel Drive hang so far over the front-wheels they appear dangerously near nosing-over. Another giant, Mormon-Harrington, specializes in lumber, petroleum and construction hauling. The revitalized Reo runs from one-and-a-half-ton general-purpose trucks to 34-ton tractor-trailer combinations. Well streamlined, Reo pushed a knifelike hood ahead of the front wheels to achieve bigger loads on the same wheelbase...