Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada has . . . exported men and women as well as fish and 'fur, lumber and wheat. . . . Scientists, inventors, artists and scholars have found other parts of the world more appreciative and congenial. . . . The whole process has obviously been . . . debilitating...
Saskatchewan's government-owned plants are already set to turn out boots & shoes, bricks, fish fillets, horsehide coats, woolens, boxes, type, lumber and power. The government can also supply fire and general insurance, looks forward to marketing a volcanic-ash kitchen cleaner, running a bus service and perhaps a Moose Jaw radio station. With Cadbury at the helm, this might be only the beginning...
Over the Horizon....When the U.S. begins to fill its needs by production, its conversion problems will still be far from over. The materials and the manpower of the nation will have to be drastically reallocated. There will not be enough steel to go around, nor enough lead, nor lumber, pipe, tiles, brick...
...Bricks, clay sewer pipe, structural tile, gypsum board, gypsum lath, cast-iron soil pipe and fittings, cast-iron radiation, bathtubs, lumber and millwork...
Back to the Barracks. Whether or not this controversy simmered down, home building on any scale would not really get under way for months: the effects of the lumber strike, shortages of labor and other materials were still very real. Last week, as winter deepened, the Senate voted unanimously to turn 75,000 units of war housing over to veterans and their families, remodel Government dormitories to house 11,000 more, find room for 14,000 in Army barracks. The University of Washington planned to put up student veterans in portable houses shipped from the Hanford atomic bomb project...