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...There was some speculation that if there was enough serious damage to structures, you would have additional demand for wood supplies." -- LUMBER BROKER EXPLAINING WHY HOPEFUL TRADERS RAN UP THE PRICE OF LUMBER FUTURES AS HURRICANE EMILY APPROACHED
...roads that have been reconstituted by adventuresome rail buffs and entrepreneurs to hook customers up with the main lines. The Maryland Midland is one. Nestled in the hills below Camp David, the presidential retreat, it serves 34 customers who need coal and raw materials to turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot in Union Bridge, he listens to the comforting purr of his six locomotives prowling...
...river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals and human and animal wastes will be mixed with the debris. And of course, mud -- tons and tons...
...recession has had nine lives, and we've already seen a number of false starts," says John Roach, chairman of Tandy Corp., which owns the Radio Shack electronics stores. "Actual growth in jobs will require a stronger rebound in the economy than there seems to be right now." At lumber giant Georgia-Pacific, hiring plans have been shelved despite forecasts of increased homebuilding in 1993. "Consumers would have to come back after the Christmas buying binge and show continued confidence," says president A.D. Correll. "We would have to see some real economic growth...
...year raise questions about influence peddlers who volunteer their time. Last February, just a month after Lake joined the Bush campaign, the Canadian Forest Industries Council hired Lake's firm to "track legislation" and monitor "administrative activities." A month later, the Commerce Department imposed a 14.5% tariff on subsidized lumber imports from Canada under the terms of the U.S.-Canada free trade pact. During the next 10 weeks, Lake twice telephoned Clayton Yeutter, who was then White House domestic-policy adviser; in a conversation on May 10, Lake asked Yeutter to take a phone call from a lawyer pleading...