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...order sticks, radio manufacturers face a painful, costly switch to wood cabinets to house even 2,500,000 sets. It would also mean a 20% jump in radio prices, additional layoffs and losses, and a possibly ruinous scramble for lumber. It would mean still more trouble for radio dealers, already understocked, and for the small manufacturers (30-40% of the industry) who cannot switch over to defense business so readily...
...Leon Henderson, all he could do was go back to his office, announce more price ceilings, hope that by some miracle they would be obeyed. Last week he put ceilings on raw sugar, burlap, copper, pig tin, pine lumber. But bootlegging has put holes in Leon's previous ceilings and doubtless will continue to riddle his new ones...
...years the machine has been slowly taming the hellion lumber industry. The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...through the thick base of a Douglas fir when by notching the tree a few feet higher they can save a foot or two in diameter. But with the power saw (which weighs about 130 Ib.) it is easier to cut at the base than higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber cutters needed for mechanized logging are toppers (who knock the tops off the trees...
India now manufactures rifles, machine guns, small-arms ammunition, artillery, propellers, blankets, military clothing and boots, rubber tires, railway equipment-some 20,000 separate items of war tackle. She also produces steel and coal, aviation and automobile gasoline, lubricating oils and lumber, has supplied Great Britain with 700,000,000 jute sandbags. A Bombay aircraft factory is expected to start turning out bombers and fighters this month...