Word: lumbering
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...surged on, piled furniture in through doors and windows, tossed out lumber from the ground floor, settled eleven families for the night. Outside, on the sign which read: "Naval recruiting daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. evening 7-9 p.m. Mon-Thurs" someone scrawled, "Hanratty was here...
...July lumber production was up to 3,150,000,000 board feet, high enough, said Small, to fill all veterans' priority housing orders...
...much good would all these moves do? Very little, most builders thought. They scoffed at priorities as "no better than hunting licenses." They pointed out that even though lumber production had increased slightly, a big percentage of it was being bootlegged or held for higher ceiling prices. Nails were bringing as much as 900% of OPA ceiling prices in the black market...
...Named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, a winegrower who blazed a trail up the 5,710-foot mountain in 1864 in search of lumber for wine casks...
American Anglo-Transvall, will operate on a partnership basis with the Anglo-Transvaal Consolidated Investment Co., Ltd., a $32 million holding company, one of the most active in South Africa. American Anglo-Transvaal will supply the cash; Anglo-Transvaal (with active subsidiaries in steel, oil, glass, coal, lumber, manganese) will provide the knowhow...