Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fool] around with the Teamsters and the first thing you know, them guys will be up there wanting 10 or 15 cents an hour, and the Oregonian can't afford it." Day after day, naming names and quoting conversations, the Turner-Lambert series produced fresh sensations. The paper charged that two officials in Portland, Multnomah County District Attorney William M. Langley and Sheriff Terry Schrunk, were mixed up with the racketeers who were plotting to "open the town." Among other accusations, the Oregonian reported that the plotters had threatened Portland Mayor Fred Peterson with political reprisals by the Teamsters...
...Register was not the only paper that, prompted by the desegregation story, investigated discrimination in its own backyard. The New York Post devoted twelve articles to the subject; the New York Times ran four solid stories on Negroes in New York and other Northern cities; the Chicago Tribune presented a scholarly, ten-part series by Negro Reporter Roi Ottley; the Newark News ran a series which was the joint work of two staffers who play tennis together-Tennessee-born George Kentera, 33, and Luther Jackson, 31, a Virginia-bred Negro. The Los Angeles Mirror-News told its story...
...porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great is the demand for paper and fiberboard containers that many big manufacturers, e.g., Crown Zellerbach, have had to ration some products...
...same time, the small, one-product companies that once ruled the woods are yielding to corporate Paul Bunyans. To make the most of every shaving and splinter, lumber companies are branching into paper and pulp production; paper companies are pushing into lumber manufacture. Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips...
...assure long-term lumber supplies. Georgia-Pacific last week took an option on a "substantial majority" of stock (at $310 a share) in California's Hammond Lumber Co., thus gained control of 3.5 billion bd. ft. of timber. Biggest merger yet is now being negotiated by International Paper Co., biggest U.S. papermaker, and Kansas City's Long-Bell Lumber Co., No. 2 lumber producer (after Weyerhaeuser...