Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There the National Defense Mediation Board had stepped into a three-weeks-old dispute that was blocking production of lumber needed in defense building. The board, taking on a new function, had appointed itself a fact-finding commission, and a panel which included labor's own representation had made public recommendations for a settlement of wage demands and grievances. But delegates of the striking C.I.O. woodworkers rejected the board's formula. At week's end no trees fell in the forests of the Northwest...
Then there was the war. Work on the script started two weeks before hostilities began. Shooting, scheduled for October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...
Example: when Colonel Oldfield's men were short of lumber for their barracks, he sent them by night to strip the hulk of an old ship, forlorn on the shore of Gatun Lake...
...more than 7,000,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...
...diversion of lumber shipments now made through the canal, it is estimated, would add 6,000 carloads a month to the rails' burden. New York City alone "imports" some 16,000,000 cases a year of fruits and vegetables from the West Coast which now will be dumped on to the railroads-or on to overworked transcontinental trucks. Also added to west-to-east rail traffic will be imported goods from the Pacific carried by ships which formerly continued on through the canal to East Coast ports. Since ships waste 30-35 days going to the East Coast...