Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lumber: 681 million board ft. v. 385 million board...
Housewife Peggy Nelson stared moodily at the mosquitoes swarming up out of the stagnant pond near her home in the little lumber town of Snoqualmie, Wash, and came to a decision: either she or the wretched puddle must...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE will be eased by Federal Court decision against "slow freight" merchandizing by lumber companies. Upholding ICC, court ruled it illegal for shippers to send lumber to Eastern markets by roundabout routes while still negotiating sales with prospective buyers, thus using freight cars as rolling warehouses...
...brightest hope for the future, as one lumberman said recently, is in "man's resourcefulness grafted on nature's resources." Sawdust and shavings today are swept thriftily into plastics, glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed...
...other worrisome inflationary pressures. The overall wholesale price index shows a 1.8% rise since January, while the cost-of-living index rose .2% in April for the second monthly increase in a row, thus bringing wage increases to 1,000,000 workers with escalator contracts. Key products like lumber, structural materials and metals have all edged...