Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter what party controls the government this November the nation will enjoy prosperous business conditions until late 1954 when a mild recession may set in. University Professor Summer H. Slicter predicted those economic conditions at a meeting of the National Hardware Lumber Association on Wednesday...
...Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles, where his parents had a lemon grove. They wished it had been oranges-which were the promissory golden fruit that had helped attract Dick's maternal grandfather, Quaker Franklin Milhous, to California from his home in Butlerville, Ind. In 1897 he had loaded lumber, doors, windows, cows and horses on a freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon, who had also come out from the Middle West. She married him two years later. Their second son, Dick, worked...
...home on crutches, adopted the slogan "Bite the apple where it is still good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn...
...Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping $135 million (31 billion Finnmark) trade surplus...
...tiles. Sales of all such asphalt tiles have risen in a decade from about 90 million sq. ft. to an estimated 550 million, of which one-third is now bought directly by the home owner. Do-it-yourself has brought similar gains, and market shifts, to other industries. Retail lumber sales have risen from $1.2 billion to $4.3 billion, with much of the increase due to purchases by home workers. Since 1946, the amount of plywood sold to non-professional builders has almost doubled (in 1951 it was 10% of total output); manufacturers are encouraging such trade by making...