Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kinds of lumber items are used by the three services...
...temporary "construction shacks" are two strange buildings shaped like asterisks. Around them fields are covered with stacked pipe and piled lumber. Widely dispersed among the gentle hills are enormous, bright-red gashes with concrete-mixing machines standing over them on towers. Around each machine is spread its handiwork: vast footings and foundations. Some are a quarter-mile long; some look massive enough to serve as the roots of mountains...
...broad and heavy as the elephants that lumber through it, The Greatest Show on Earth will find a surefire audience among circus fans. Other moviegoers who endure its two hours and 33 minutes will have to console themselves mostly by laughing at a story that often makes a travesty of itself...
...Loss. Until five years ago, Georgia-Pacific wasn't making any plywood at all. It was merely a lumber company known as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. which Owen Cheatham had started 20 years ago in a tiny Augusta, Ga. bungalow. After he graduated from a military academy, young Cheatham spent a few years learning the lumber business in several small companies, before he started Georgia Hardwood with $6,000 of his own and $12,000 borrowed from friends. A crack salesman, Cheatham sold $250,000 in lumber the first year, netted $24,000. The company has made money...
Cheatham opened sales branches in 15 countries, soon was selling 50% of his lumber abroad. During the war, he picked up four sawmills at sawdust-cheap prices, and was ready with his own lumber supplies when World War II ended. By 1946, he had annual sales of $13 million, and a young management raring to expand. The booming plywood business seemed just the thing...