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...second quarter, the 22 major U.S. manufacturing industries earned $3.2 billion after taxes, 34% more than in the previous quarter and 59% more than in the same period in 1949, the SEC reported last week. Largest increases were in such housing boom products as furniture and fixtures, lumber and wood, stone, clay and glass, and in cars and auto parts. Only decreases: printing and publishing, clothes and finished textiles, textile mill products...
...longtime member of the editorial staffs of TIME and FORTUNE who now writes novels in the south of France, knows his milieu. He has a long memory for the provincial feel, the sights, sounds, and faded scandals of the Delaware country. If there is a bit too much historical lumber and corn in The Barons, he has managed to infuse enough animal vigor into his story to make it absorbing and as close to Balzac as any modern author...
...ruggedly individualistic U.S. housing industry, which has seldom been able to agree on what a federal housing policy should be, last week surprised everyone, including itself. At a round-table sponsored by BUILDING,† the five great trade associations of the industry-the Mortgage Bankers, the Home Builders, the Lumber Dealers, the Associated General Contractors, and the Producers Council -got together on a comprehensive program in support of U.S. rearmament.** Chief point: house building should be cut back to 1,000,000 units a year from the current rate...
Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture had good news for barefoot boys and for the lumber industry. It reported that a Chinese chestnut, Castanea mollissima, is doing well in many parts of the U.S. The trees in an experimental plot near Roanoke, Va. are now 14 years old, and appear to have all the desirable qualities. Besides resisting blight, they produce good nuts and good straight trunks for timber. Best of all, they come true to seed, and are actually seeding themselves beyond the experimental plot, just like native trees. The only part of the chestnut belt where they...
...living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert that during World War I he was appointed boss of all U.S. plywood production...