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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Where Change Comes Slowly | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Machine Maker for the West | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Building materials, cast-iron pipe, lumber, bricks, laths, radiators, etc. were far below the minimum requirements for the nation's housing program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the Goods? | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: Needed: Paul & Babe | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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