Word: lumbermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Construction showed a $400 million gain to $4.1 billion in May-and gave the Northwest's troublesome lumber industry real hope for better business. Though output is down 10% from last year, lumbermen talk encouragingly of a second-half push that might carry the industry 2% or 3% ahead...
...Commerce Department, in its annual survey of the nation's major industries, found "moderate optimism." Though it conceded that production declines are in store for autos, steel, machine tools and railway cars, it predicted that some of 1957's softer industries will snap back. Said the report: lumbermen should enjoy "a somewhat better year," copper and aluminum sales should prove stronger, and sales of agricultural equipment "should be up between...
Along Manhattan's Bowery last week, sad-eyed, dirt-dappled bums lazed in the sun that reaches their curbs and benches now that the Third Avenue elevated has been torn down. Along San Francisco's Mission Street, the "lumbermen"-beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno...
Oregon's State Unemployment Compensation Commission reported that one-third of the Douglas fir raw-lumber mills are closed, and more lumbermen are idle than at any time in three years. The mills' inventories are more than double their orders, and retail yards are buying from hand to mouth. Lumbermen are banking on a third-quarter rise. They figure money will loosen by summer, free funds for building more houses...
...lumbermen will pry valuable industrial products from more than 2 billion bd. ft. of left-over wood (enough for 200,000 homes) that would have been abandoned ten years...