Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clatter of hammers and the fresh smell of unpainted Virginia pine filled the White House grounds last week. Beyond the north lawn and across broad Pennsylvania Avenue, along Lafayette Park, workmen were knocking together grandstands. There on Jan. 20 the President and as many U. S. citizens as can be accommodated will watch the inaugural parade of Term III: a two-hour procession of the nation's armed forces, including a mechanized unit from Fort Knox...
Even so, this year's parade stands were a big job, requiring 600,000 board feet of pine. With labor costs for such work in Washington up 20% from 1937 and materials up 33 to 50%, the stands will cost the inaugural committee $50,000 (of which $3,818 goes to Clark Griffith for bleachers brought from his Senators' ball park). Although seats sell for $2 to $10, the committee will do well to break even, expects to have nothing left over for Washington's community fund.* Other inauguration preparations last week...
Died. William Joseph ("Billy") Hill, 41, author of such back-home song hits as The Last Round-Up, The Old Spinning Wheel, Wagon Wheels and They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree; of heart disease; in Boston...
...French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows; a spray of mistletoe hung from the big brass light in the lobby, over the Presidential seal embedded in the stone floor...
Rubber could no longer be taken for granted in 1940. Standard Oil and Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...