Word: lumbers
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...from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew the region from wartime service. Trans-Med hauled heavy machinery and baby chickens, dynamite and guns. "Weapons to me," says Abu-Haidar today, "are the same as pieces of lumber. A European government charters one of my planes and asks me to haul rifles to Algeria. What do I do, let someone else have the business...
Ugly Episode. With only one-third of the planned 600 shelters completed by week's end, cash, lumber-and occasionally, enthusiasm-were practically depleted. National Coordinator Bernard Lafayette said the campaign had funds only "for the next few days," appealed for $3,000,000 to keep it going. When others angrily pounced on Lafayette for making it sound as if the campaign were being mismanaged, he trimmed his estimate of cash needs to $84,000 and confessed: "I just goofed...
...list of jobs that women are doing is almost endless. In Canada, lumberjacks have been joined by lumber-Jills. In the U.S. this summer, the Good Humor man may as often as not be a Good Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters...
Appalachians are not the only poor whites; they can be found throughout the nation. "Years ago," says an old Maine selectman, "a boy could leave school, get himself a saw and a jitterbug (tractor) and go into the woods to cut lumber. He'd do all right." Men like Everett Williams, 35, can no longer do all right. Williams, a lean, bony man in outsized boots and a gas-station-green work shirt, lives with his wife and eight children in a rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near...
...materials (coal, grains and soybeans, for example) and the high-technology output of the world's most research-minded corporations (computers, aircraft, electronics). Between those extremes, chronic trade-balance weakness is suffered by at least 122 manufacturing industries. Among them: steel, paper, food-and-drink, glass, textiles, apparel, lumber, leather, shipbuilding, autos, watches and sporting goods. In 1-966, those 122 provided 35% of the nation's industrial jobs, but they ran up a hefty $7.5 billion trade deficit. Says Finance Chairman Robert C. Tyson of U.S. Steel Corp.: "America generally has become less competitive than...