Word: lumberingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many new houses, built for veterans, were falling apart. They had been put up with green lumber, ersatz plumbing and slapped together by careless carpentry. Worst gripes came from Mineola, L.I., where walls cracked, cellars flooded, rafters warped. The cellar of one $9,950 Mineola house was flooded daily by plumbing waste...
...Builders were plagued more than ever with shortages (lumber, nails, foundry products), black markets, price uncertainties, general confusion...
...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...
Jones, a well-to-do former Hollywood lumber executive, looks like the epitome of all the crotchety, middle-aged men in dark glasses and white flannels who hang around junior tennis tournaments. Officially, he is secretary of the Southern California Tennis Association; actually, he is dictator of his region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-prot...
There was a good chance that they would get reasonably quick delivery on their orders. Despite shortages of lumber, spring wire, skilled labor, glue and leather, furniture production was up slightly over 1941. Although manufacturers still had their customers on quotas, allotments have been upped. Prices were still steady. Many of the orders placed last week were at OPA ceilings. But many a buyer predicted a wholesale price boost of 15 to 20% within 60 to 90 days. If retailers expected to absorb this expected boost, they were saying nothing about...