Word: lumberyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal, and burning it adds nothing to the atmosphere's carbon dioxide sum. But participates from inefficient burners can polute in congested areas...
...small to function as a building−is one example of the syndrome, and another is Alice Aycock's 24-ft.-long construction of arches, ladders and drumlike wooden wheels, whose title (The Happy Birthday Day Coronation Piece) sounds as portentous as the piece looks. This kind of lumberyard Piranesi is simply too big for its boots...
...cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood. By now, Nevelson is a scavenger on a nearly industrial scale, given to buying up whole demolition contracts to secure material. It is possible that some of the wood sold by her father, an emigre from Kiev who started a lumberyard in Rockland, Me., in 1905, has found its way back as table legs or broken newel posts into Nevelson's sculpture...
...soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A. statement, was "the direct responsibility of Queen Elizabeth...
Throughout the week, the almost endemic violence sputtered on in Londonderry (see following story), and in Belfast the night sky reddened with a huge fire in a lumberyard where there was an army post. To keep the I.R.A. from leaving bombs in cars parked outside department stores and office buildings, several major downtown Belfast streets were closed to all traffic except buses and emergency vehicles...