Word: lumbers
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...Share of the Profits. Inflation plays a widely overlooked role in the swing to apartments. The rising cost of land, labor and materials (lumber prices have soared 30% this year) has driven up the total price of for-sale homes in many areas much faster than rents have climbed. Labor Department figures show that the cost of renting in the Los Angeles area, for example, has risen 12% since 1960, while the cost of home ownership has gone...
Even the more liberal Southerners sometimes fall into the "Unqualified Nigras" trap. "I wouldn't mind hirin' some of the nigras," a lumber-yard owner said last summer, "but I just can't find any who know how to do the work. They just can't read and learn the job or work steady...
...years, conservationists have been fighting a losing battle to save the redwoods. Their mahogany-hued, durable lumber (it virtually defies dry rot) is highly prized for its structural and decorative uses. To date, the battle has gone to the chainsaw. Where there were once 2,000,000 acres of virgin redwoods, only 250,000 stand today. Last week, as Congress sent to President Johnson a bill establishing the nation's first Redwood National Forest, the conservationists won a significant victory...
...McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer's old fire-and Texans can again expect to feel the heat...
Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one of the last examples of that almost vanished bit of Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...