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...going to cost Canadians more not only to eat, but to dress and to build. Ottawa stores predicted that rising leather prices would raise the price of shoes $2 to $4 a pair. A similar prediction in Winnipeg set off a buying spree. In some Vancouver yards, lumber went up $5 to $8 per thousand feet, to complicate the problem of new housing...
...good fun and the hotels are wonderful - especially the Gran in Managua, where everybody sits around the great open lobby with the swimming pool in the middle, spying on one another. Some day I will discover why all the spies in Central America insist that they are in the lumber business...
...visited the U.S. consular office on the twelfth floor of Vancouver's Marine Building one day last week. What Bill Dickman wanted was a "job with a future." For four years during the depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back to the woods...
...week, Forestry Expert Howard Kennedy reported to Premier George Drew on a 15-month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...