Word: lumberingly
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...lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome in the Philippines; antimony in China. Her facilities for processing these metals are not altogether satisfactory. She can count on rice from Burma, Thailand, Formosa; sugar from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping, worries her a little. For the time being, she is well set for aircraft machinery but needs certain precision tools and parts, such as exact ball bearings. She does not worry about bombings as long as Shangri-La is farther from Tokyo and much more uncertain than...
...other trainees demonstrated how to avoid and neutralize booby traps left by the enemy. Carefully they carried out a mop-up raid on "Führerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all of the incorrect things. One picked up a pair of gloves. An explosion followed. The same happened when they set foot on the doorstep, opened a door, shut a window...
...this the Forest Service replied that the little fellow subtracted nothing from the big producer, since popgun production involved part-time work by people who would not man the big mills anyway. Besides, popguns might add as much as six billion board feet to the total U.S. lumber supply...
...between all "essential" needs and total production of as high as 12.2 billion board feet (more than one-third of hoped-for production and imports) and no shortage at all for essential needs. But there was agreement on two central points: 1) there is no overall shortage of lumber for military needs; 2) but there is not enough lumber to fill all civilian demands. For wood is the last-gasp substitute for practically every other scarce material. Though production is 4% below 1941 levels, unfilled orders have skyrocketed to nearly 30% above last year (see chart...
...this hullabaloo the Forest Service had one further talking point that may sway Layman Roosevelt to rule in its favor. The only obvious way to prove whether or not the popguns can rescue the nation from the threatened lumber shortage is to let them try. If a way can also be found to give the big mills more labor and machinery, that would be just so much more gravy...