Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years younger than her husband), is smart, ambitious for both him and herself and experienced in the ways of politics. Although she sees herself more as "a Huck Finn" than "a Southern belle," her favorite fictional heroine is Scarlett O'Hara. "You saw what she did with that lumber company," Cornelia recently recalled. "When she had to, she took over that business and made a success of it. She made do for herself." In the face of her husband's probably permanent paralysis, Mrs. Wallace is determined to "make...
...needed to deploy a minimum of 1,550 inspectors instead of the current 500. The Labor Department, working on a "worst-first" basis, is concentrating its inspectors on the policing of industries that have extremely high accident rates: longshoring, roofing and sheet metal, meat packing, mobile-home manufacturing and lumber and wood producing. Indeed, accidents are so common on the docks that, on the average, one out of every eight longshoremen a year suffers at least a temporarily disabling injury...
Died. Donald N. Pritzker, 39, president of Hyatt Corp., who, with his two brothers, father and uncle, built a small family law firm into a half-billion-dollar conglomerate of hotel, lumber, farm machinery, banking and mining interests; of a heart attack suffered while playing tennis; in Oahu, Hawaii...
...strawberries and avocados flown in for the occasion. They were tasty examples of Israel's flourishing fruit and vegetable exports and a subtle bid to increase her country's trade with Rumania, which now runs at a yearly rate of nearly $40 million, mostly in Rumanian meat, lumber and chemicals exchanged for Israeli potash, citrus fruits and textiles...
...lumber mill produces a load of wood with a market price of $25; this price represents practically all the "value" that the mill has added to the raw timber by buying and converting it to lumber. On a VAT of 3% the mill pays the Government 75?. This cost, separately invoiced, is tacked to the price of the lumber, which is then sold to a cabinetmaker for $25.75. The manufacturer transforms the lumber into a cabinet, increasing its market value from $25 to $75. On the $50 value added, the cabinetmaker pays another 3%, or $1.50. When selling the cabinet...