Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, now nearing 40, John Gardner was busy doing something important about the war-born lumber shortage. Helping push toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...
...events of the two days had projected into the news and given at least a footnote in history to a man hardly known to the U.S. public. Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman (six generations of Averys have been lumber men), Sewell Avery was born in Saginaw in 1874. After graduation from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave...
...Larger Problem. In these camps are some 12,000 Japanese, both Canadian-born Nisei and immigrants from Nippon. Eleven thousand others have found temporary work in lumber camps or farms in other provinces. Of the 23,000 Japanese in Canada, only 431 have been interned since Pearl Harbor, 256 of them Canadian citizens. In spite of this record, British Columbians (and most Canadians) view both Nisei and other Japanese with deep suspicion. Unlike the U.S., Canada has not called any Canadians of Japanese blood in her draft...
When he got out of the hospital, with two artificial arms, he took a business course and started selling insurance. He worked in a lumber yard, drove a truck, did clerical work in Los Angeles, worked for a utilities company. For four years he was postmaster of Bell, Calif. Now he is national field secretary for the American Legion, is married, with a couple of sons, and has a ranch...
...team's most famous act sprang out of Jimmy's reading of an advertisement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. It said: "Almost everyone has been induced to believe that this country is confronted by an acute shortage of timber. This is not true. . . . Wood built America. Without wood there could have been no America. . . . Wood built the homes . . . churches . . . stockades . . . corncribs . . . WOOD ENDURES . . . Wood is friendly, wood is economical...