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Recession. The recession issue proved highly overrated. Such long-hurting areas as West Virginia voted for Kennedy. But California's San Diego County, hard-hit by airplane-plant layoffs, remained Republican; so did layoff areas around Seattle and Oregon's slumping lumber region...
...five-man crews of subcontractors, who put up the shell on the home buyer's plot. Walter houses sell for $1,095 to $3,495 depending on size and style, and he keeps costs down by paying his builders a fixed fee per house, supplying everything except lumber for the construction from his own Dixie Building Supplies Inc. Last year Walter cleared an average of $1,000 profit on every house he built, on an average sales price of only $2,500. Even so, the home buyer saves 20% to 25% on his shell, claims Walter, compared...
...dining hall in Lowell House and the cellar in Massachusetts, or its equivalent, are still there. House drama groups will flourish in the future as they have in the past and the young man who feels happier working as his own carpenter can always find the lift and the lumber, but it is irrelevant to say so, for if our faith is grounded on do-it-yourself stagecraft, why did we build the Loeb? And neither, and for the same reason, is it an adequate answer to point out that the Loeb contains an experimental theater which can equal...
...July, when the Outer Seven put into effect its first mutual 20% tariff reduction, the effect on Finnish trade was instant and disastrous. In Britain, Finland's best market, Finnish lumber and paper exporters ran into big trouble from Swedish and Norwegian competition, had to drop prices by as much as $5.60 a ton. Kekkonen, never very popular, was soon in bad political trouble. Last week Nikita Khrushchev decided the time had come to drop in and give him a hand...
...Journal sprang its surprise after Reporter Ed Cony visited the Georgia-Pacific Corp. to do a story on the integrated lumber industry. Back in June, the New York Times had reported the deal between Georgia-Pacific and Shanks in a story that gave no figures, caused little comment. But that was before the Chrysler furor. When Reporter Cony pieced together the deal's details, the Journal put the story on Page...