Word: lumbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...learning other things-simple, sense-making military things that are as important on the field of battle as know-how on a production line. His repair cars now come right up to battle zones, often work on disabled tanks during battle. His huge salvage wagons, with their cranes, lumber up as soon as night falls, pick up wrecks-British as well as German-and carry them back to workshops housed in blacked-out tents...
...termite trouble may become worse. There is constant danger that new varieties will be imported (the U.S. has already exported several varieties of termites in lumber to Europe, where only two native types occur). But most scientists doubt that the termite and other social insects will conquer man and dominate the earth, despite the fears of Novelist H. G. Wells. Reason: limitations of their breathing apparatus...
With demand soaring, Pacific Coast lumber production (almost half the total) has lagged behind 1941 every month this year, mainly for want of skilled and willing lumberjacks. Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
...Lumber stocks on June 6 were only 2.6 billion board feet, against 3.1 billion a year before. Prospect now is that civilians will soon find lumber almost as hard to buy as rubber...
Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...