Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sculptor Chaim Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...
...homebuilding, hit by the big drop in building for veterans, declined again in March to the lowest rate in eight years. The decline was reflected in the appliance industry, where sales of home laundry equipment in the first quarter were down 18% from last year, and in lumber and other industries tied in with housing. Steelmakers also were still trimming production: in Buffalo, Republic Steel Corp. was operating only five of its nine steelmaking furnaces...
THREE-WAY MERGER will put Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., biggest U.S. lumber producer (but second to diversified Crown-Zellerbach in overall business) into the finished-container field for first time. In face of sagging U.S. lumber sales, Weyerhaeuser will absorb Chicago's Eddy Paper Corp. and New Jersey's Kieckhefer Container Co. in $200 million stock swap, emerge as fully integrated lumber-pulp-container producer, with annual earnings of about $65 million...
Oregon's State Unemployment Compensation Commission reported that one-third of the Douglas fir raw-lumber mills are closed, and more lumbermen are idle than at any time in three years. The mills' inventories are more than double their orders, and retail yards are buying from hand to mouth. Lumbermen are banking on a third-quarter rise. They figure money will loosen by summer, free funds for building more houses...
...Alexander Pope put it: "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head...