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Railroad carloadings in the July 12 week were 876,000 cars, 19% above 1940. Nationwide lumber output was 20% above 1940. First six months' machine-tool production was a record $348,000,000, 93% above 1940. Weekly oil output was up 9% over 1940. But with the industry about to lose 100 tankers (see p. 66), it faced a serious problem in how to get all this oil to market...
...were a pair of Bangor Tigers, if ever there were: 28-year-old Joe Connor of Cloquet, Minn., an upstart college boy (University of Minnesota), who at the 1937 championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first fall...
Sponsored by the State Board of Health, the privies are built with WPA labor. In most cases, the owner provides land and materials-pine lumber, concrete for floor and pit, corrugated iron for the roof. Total cost: $34, divided equally between material and labor...
Army engineers figure the Seaway would require 10,000 men (mostly unskilled), 84,000,000 board feet of lumber (3% of 1940's record output), 130,000 tons of steel (around one half day's U.S. output), 6,650,000 bbl. of cement (5.1% of 1940-5 output). A sharper squeeze would be felt when builders start after dredges, pneumatic hammers, giant cranes, electrical equipment, all now as scarce as they were plentiful five years...
There the National Defense Mediation Board had stepped into a three-weeks-old dispute that was blocking production of lumber needed in defense building. The board, taking on a new function, had appointed itself a fact-finding commission, and a panel which included labor's own representation had made public recommendations for a settlement of wage demands and grievances. But delegates of the striking C.I.O. woodworkers rejected the board's formula. At week's end no trees fell in the forests of the Northwest...