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...waters: drilling began last week off the southern end of Honshu Island. Japanese industries buy copper from Chile, Zambia, Brazil and the Congo, nickel and iron from Australia, coal from Canada and the U.S. Far more is required. By 1975, Japan expects to need imports for 58% of its lumber, 83% of its copper, 85% of its coal and 90% of its iron...
...showdown meeting of UAL directors at Chicago's O'Hare Field, Keck was told that he was out. The news was broken by the man who presided over the meeting, Thomas Gleed, who had often tangled with Keck. Gleed, a Seattle financier who made his money in lumber, is a close friend of Patterson and a keen fan of his fellow townsman, "Eddie" Carlson...
...Please assure your employees that we value their patronage very highly and are indeed sorry if we offended them." After hospital officials threatened to move the institution's bank accounts, the National Bank and Trust Co. also canceled its advertising. So did Robert Dean, president of Red Mill Lumber Co., pointing out that "a boycott by employees and their friends would have been staggering...
...resembles the kind of homecooking enterprise that Dale Evans would launch if she and Roy moved to Cambridge. Not that the ambience is pseudo spurs-n-saddles. On the contrary, the decor is functional suburban, with its variegated red-brick walls left completely bare. Those huge blocks of lumber around the store-front so far as I could make out are there either to suggest the Forest of Arden or to keep the windows from being trashed...
...mangrove forests are valuable lumber and the areas where they have been destroyed have been taken over by bamboo which is very hard to get rid of and useless...