Word: lumberyard
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...care of her sister and brother-in-law Bertha and James Louis. At six, he moved with them to Bremerton, Wash.--a journey made difficult by segregation laws that shut them out of hotels, rest rooms and diners--and later to Sacramento, where Connerly's uncle worked in a lumberyard. As a child, Connerly found work running errands, helping a carpenter, hawking ice water to laborers. "I was a little hustler," he says with a chuckle...
They stick to your clothes, are devilishly difficult to sweep up and are lousy for the environment. Yet those ubiquitous, annoying Styrofoam pellets seem to swaddle just about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch...
...says truthfully, "water begins to drip from the chandelier." The new householder either pays local artisans or ruins things himself. Owen doesn't exactly tell you how, but he gives you enough information (in the "Fear of Lumber" chapter) so that the guys in bib overalls at the lumberyard won't sneer. He is especially good on roof slopes and pitches and household electricity. Owen strums his mandolin in praise of electric miter saws ("Yeah, if you can afford one," says a young carpenter who leafed through this book) and electronic levels ("Nah," says my source...
When U.S. agents do uncover a shipment, the cartel adopts new shippers, different routes and more ingenious deceptions. Federal agents took nine years to crack a Santacruz-designed lumber scheme. In 1979, a Cali operative was arrested with the name of a Baltimore lumberyard in his pocket. There, agents saw piles of mahogany boards sliced end to end, with pockets hollowed out and the tops veneered on. A few more clues popped up over the years, but nothing to pinpoint which planks, among the tons of lumber imported from South America, contained contraband...