Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
...first time ever the U.S. faces a lumber shortage...
...needs four billion more board feet of lumber this year than it is likely to get-seven billion more than it has used in any year since 1929-37 billion in all. One reason is the switch from metal to wood forced by the metal shortages. Another is the vast expansion in construction since Pearl Harbor, now estimated to require 25 billion board feet. Manufactured articles will take 3.4 billion; crates and boxes, 7 billion...
With demand soaring, Pacific Coast lumber production (almost half the total) has lagged behind 1941 every month this year, mainly for want of skilled and willing lumberjacks. Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
Longer Hauls. In 1929 the average freight movement was 317 miles; last year, 367; this year, it is estimated, well above 400. Many a roaring train whistling through the night is on a transcontinental journey with West Coast lumber, canned goods and foodstuffs formerly shipped through the Panama Canal. Westbound freightcars are going back full for the first time in a generation, loaded with guns and tanks for MacArthur, supplies for California aircraft plants and shipbuilders. Diversion of shipping from the Atlantic ports to the Gulf means long north-south hauls of sugar, coffee, bauxite. All-rail movement of coal...