Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jawed, bushy-browed, erudite Tycoon MacMillan was born near Toronto, studied forestry at Yale. In 1912 he went to British Columbia, got interested in timber's export possibilities, went into business for himself. Soon his ships were carrying so much of Canada's lumber exports that the sawmill owners began buying ships too. So MacMillan bought (from John D. Rockefeller Jr.) one billion feet of standing timber and a sawmill...
...some years Lumberman MacMillan has been the world's No. 1 exporter of lumber. But, at 55, success has not smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them." He answers his own telephone with a gruff "MacMillan speaking." Once at a formal dinner there was a hushed lull while the diners waited for someone to say grace. The silence was broken by his boom: "MacMillan speaking...
Second was scrap, for which OPM set a price ceiling at $20 a ton. Third was lumber, which Price Commissioner Leon Henderson had already forced down below $25 a thousand board foot (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week, to avoid future dislocation, the Government talked of acquiring its own stock pile...
...mains, 60 miles of sewer lines, an 8,000,000-gallon (per day) water system, 60 miles of electric power lines, other huge essentials. The cantonment would be North Carolina's third largest city. By last week, 1,900 of the buildings had been finished (many with green lumber, which was bound to warp); 35,000 troops were quartered, and General Devers was sure that the whole thing would be completed before his deadline...
...carpenters. General Devers cut corners, even cut sacred Army tape (example: many a building was nearly completed before paper authority to start it had arrived). Where a steel water tank had been planned, with no steel at hand, a 132-foot concrete monster stood last week. When the lumber supply threatened to run short, Army buyers combed the Carolinas and part of Georgia, cornered the regional market (at premium prices), and kept well ahead of the carpenters. A two-story frame bar racks, from concrete foundation to the last shingle, was run up in ten days. Some where on Bragg...