Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
...Members included Ralph Walker, president of the American Institute of Architects, Clark Daniel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders' Design & Construction Committee, James Price, president of the National Homes Corp., Richard Kimbell, technical director of the National Lumber Mfrs. Association, B. L. Wood, director of research for the American Iron & Steel Institute...
...Magazine of BUILDING. It is based on a brass-tacks, technical round table* held under the sponsorship of that magazine. The report has already received unanimous endorsement from the heads of every important U.S. building association, including architects, home builders, mortgage bankers, savings and loan leagues, producers and retail lumber dealers. Said the round table: "Without the pressure of some national emergency, the home-buying public might well have to go on year after year paying billions of dollars extra as the price of these wastes . . . [Now] we hope obvious reforms which might otherwise be delayed a half century...
...More than a billion dollars a year could be saved by standardizing the industry's crazy quilt of odd sizes of materials. ¶ Foundations required for one-story houses are far in excess of any real need. ¶ Practically every small house is structurally overdesigned (i.e., wastes lumber). ¶ Standard, prefabricated plumbing assemblies could save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper...
...expansion attic ("You have the joy of finishing the second floor yourself"). The master bedroom was a barnlike 10 ft. by 11½. Each front door was flanked by the advertised "shrubbery"-two arborvitae bushes. All the floors were linoleum-covered, all the walls were plywood, and all the lumber was green...