Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods output continues upward; WPBoss Don Nelson last week reported July output 16% over June to another record. But in many industries output is headed down. Lumber output runs 15% below the 1941-42 peaks; paperboard production teeters 32% below the January high; retail sales are below recent levels and barely equal to last year...
After duty as fire house, carpenter shop, and lumber room the building was chosen in 1788 as the birthplace of the Harvard Medical School. Its hallowed amphitheater became the carving place for sallow cadavers...
...back as last October the Department of Agriculture had warned of the present storage shortage; few heeded until Pearl Harbor made sober farmers realize that foreign markets were gone. Then it was too late for many to get nails, tin and lumber for sheds. Commodity Credit Corp., with WPB priorities, let contracts for 60,000 prefabricated wood and metal bins to be sold to farmers, enough to hold 110,000,000 bushels of wheat. But the contractors fell behind schedule...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...
...pleasure: for weekend trips to Longacres racetrack (twelve miles away), Mount Rainier National Park (100 miles), the British Columbia trout country (490 miles). Gambling is so heavy and widespread that violent protests recently came from a man who is no long-nosed reformer: young Pete Terzick, editor for the Lumber & Sawmill Workers' Union paper...