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...Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
...first time ever the U.S. faces a lumber shortage...
...needs four billion more board feet of lumber this year than it is likely to get-seven billion more than it has used in any year since 1929-37 billion in all. One reason is the switch from metal to wood forced by the metal shortages. Another is the vast expansion in construction since Pearl Harbor, now estimated to require 25 billion board feet. Manufactured articles will take 3.4 billion; crates and boxes, 7 billion...
...belly-bands for troops in the tropics, fur for Arctic troops, plenty of woolens for the British Isles. There had to be food for all in the style to which U.S. soldiers are accustomed -and lemon extract had to get to Anchorage and Eritrea on schedule, along with the lumber for barracks and gasoline for the mess stoves...
Longer Hauls. In 1929 the average freight movement was 317 miles; last year, 367; this year, it is estimated, well above 400. Many a roaring train whistling through the night is on a transcontinental journey with West Coast lumber, canned goods and foodstuffs formerly shipped through the Panama Canal. Westbound freightcars are going back full for the first time in a generation, loaded with guns and tanks for MacArthur, supplies for California aircraft plants and shipbuilders. Diversion of shipping from the Atlantic ports to the Gulf means long north-south hauls of sugar, coffee, bauxite. All-rail movement of coal...