Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together, Boise Cascade lost $ 11 million last year in recreation markets. At the same time, the recession and tight money weakened two of the company's mainstay activities, housing and lumber. As a result, total profits fell 55% to $13.4 million, while sales dropped 1% to $1.7 billion. During the fourth quarter the company suffered a net loss...
That performance was doubly disappointing because until last year Boise Cascade had seemed to be doing just about everything right. In the 14 years since energetic Robert V. Hansberger, now 50, took over as president, the company has spread from lumber into other building materials, paper, packaging, office supplies, factory-built houses, on-site houses, apartments and mobile homes. Almost all of Hansberger's 35 mergers have been with firms related in one way or another to timber or its uses. Even last year's acquisition of San Diego-based CRM Inc., a publisher of magazines (Psychology Today...
...that beer tray?" asks Darling. "Milwaukee, 1919. Over there on the closet door, that's an old lumber boat I saw off the coast. And over there, that's a peach tree we used to steal peaches from when we were kids. That's Barcelona, that's an old guy in Genoa, that there's Beirut...
...held back mention of the astounding set of 'Tis Pity to the customary tag-end position such matters usually receive in reviews, though this set, designed by a talent named Franco Colavecchio who also did the costumes, is superb in every respect. Its somber facade, constructed from grayish lumber, in three tiers of Italianate colonnades, is appropriately weighty in appearance. A quick turn of some stage machinery turns left-stage quickly into Arabella's bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon...
...waters: drilling began last week off the southern end of Honshu Island. Japanese industries buy copper from Chile, Zambia, Brazil and the Congo, nickel and iron from Australia, coal from Canada and the U.S. Far more is required. By 1975, Japan expects to need imports for 58% of its lumber, 83% of its copper, 85% of its coal and 90% of its iron...