Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stratofreighters, wheezing into readiness. Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute intervals, the cargo planes lumber down the runway, turn northward toward the Nigerian coast. Late afternoon sunlight splashes on little blue and gold fish, the fuselage emblems of the interfaith airlift organized by the World Council of Churches and the Catholic relief organization Caritas to shuttle food to starving Biafra...
...Japan to impose "voluntary" quotas on steel exports, and Nixon has made clear that he favors similar quotas for textiles. Another threat to free trade comes from home builders and lumbermen, who want the U.S. to curb timber exports to Japan. Partly because of high Japanese demand for U.S. lumber, domestic prices have risen by nearly 100% in the past year, increasing the average cost of a new house...
...December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy in higher price tags on consumer items...
...these efforts have helped raise U.S. Steel's share of the market a bit-from a low of 23.5% last year to the current 25%. Meanwhile the company has diversified fairly rapidly by expanding its petrochemical operations and by venturing into such varied fields as aircraft leasing and lumber products...
...Lady Bird Johnson strolled through the cathedral-like majesty of the redwood country of northern California. Pausing at the base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday's mistakes: neon strips and honky-tonks...