Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creeping disease of the U.S. economy, priorities unemployment, infected the booming West Coast lumber industry last week. Because of OPM's priority order against non-defense housing (TIME, Oct. 6) millmen have had a flood of cancellations on "side-cut" lumber (for home construction). Last week Portland's West Oregon Lumber Co. cut operations from five to two days a week. Another concern did likewise. Said the West Coast Lumbermen's Association: "Others might follow...
...Hillman, of course," said Lewis, "is responsible for the fantastic procedure which has been followed. His attitude of vengeful and malignant opposition to the interests of the United Mine Workers is only equaled by the fury of his actions against the United Construction Workers* in the Currier Lumber case." As for calling off the strike-in his own brand of inflated English, Mr. Lewis told the President of the U.S. to go jump in the lake...
...Enough lumber to make thousands of such boxes, which can also be used for other needs if the emergency blows over, has been set aside and will not be touched until the time comes. Library authorities have estimated that 120 can be made and packed...
...Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still buying silk...
...part of its defense-housing program, FWA, planning to put up 300 houses in Detroit, asked for bids. The big Currier Lumber Co. of Detroit was $216,000 under its nearest rival. One reason: Currier's houses were prefabricated (factory-made in sections, to be assembled on the site). Although a housing shortage is one of the scandals of the defense program, A.F. of L. building unions have fought prefabrication from the start. They saw the new, streamlined process displacing their craftsmen with factory workers, their ancient union structures wrecked, their union bosses out in the cold. Furthermore, Currier...