Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going further and making capital outlays-some minor, some potentially sizable-to save more fuel. Some plants began investing even before the fuel shortage. Four years ago an RCA Corp. cabinetmaking plant in Monticello, Ind., converted its heating systems to burn 30 to 40 tons of its own waste wood daily. Dow Chemical Corp. has cut steam consumption in half at one of its plants, partly by installing a more efficient heat-transfer process. The investment of $44,000 was offset within a year through lower energy bills. Alcoa has developed a new smelting process that is expected...
Students staying in their rooms during Christmas vacation cannot expect to keep warm easily or inexpensively by lighting fires, because of recent rises in wood prices and inadequate fireplaces in the Houses...
...cord of wood that sold for $40 to $50 in the Boston area in September is now selling at an average of $85 and as high as $125 per cord. At approximately 1000 two-foot logs to a cord, one log costs between 8 and 10 cents...
...local dealers are still selling wood at $85 per cord: T-B Wood Co. and an unnamed service advertising "choice hardwoods". The "choice hardwoods" service also sells half cords for $45 and a "trunkload" of approximately 125 two-foot length logs at $15 with the cost of delivery and stacking included...
...only Lowell House has established a firewood service for the students in the House. The Lowell House Committee buys wood by the cord from dealers in the Concord area and distributes it to students for about $1.50 per "armload...