Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Prosperity. These busy mountaineers had repaired their railroads, got their hydro-electric power output back to 94% of prewar capacity, the lumber industry to 72%, textiles to 65%, building bricks to 50%. Farmers had discovered that bomb craters were good spots to store manure. Said 68-year-old Anton Halmer: "I never had time to dig a hole deep enough until you fellows did the job for me in a couple of minutes." Inns-bruckers, whose official ration is 1,250 calories a day, looked well-fed and prosperous. Many a middle-class woman looked as though...
Married. Louise Dickinson Rich, 42, author of We Took to the Woods, and James Barnett, 62, whose business was getting them cut down (a retired lumber dealer); both for the third time; in Rumford...
During the war, California Shipbuilding Corp. built 467 ships worth some $1,000,000,000. But shortly after V-J day, Calship's payroll dropped to 800 from its wartime peak of 42,500; its 14 ways were sold for lumber. Calship President John A. McCone and Board Chairman Stephen Bechtel found themselves heading a company reportedly worth $14,000,000, most of it in cash. With nothing to make, they wanted to find a use for their cash...
...Building materials, cast-iron pipe, lumber, bricks, laths, radiators, etc. were far below the minimum requirements for the nation's housing program...
...face of all this, the mild price stimulants looked woefully inadequate. CPA Lumber Boss Mathias W. Niewenthous issued "a realistic forecast" of this year's production. Said he: it will be only 30 billion board feet, far short of U.S. needs...