Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Built in 1744, Holden was used successively as a lecture hall, barracks for the Continental arm, College lumber room, and fire engine house. Later it served the Medical School as a lecture hall and an anatomical museum...
...Northwest, lumber prices had plummeted in one of the steepest drops in the industry's history. Some grades had dropped 50%. Sales of television sets (hit also by the color controversy), radios, washers and other big appliances were also on the skids. Said one Atlanta retailer: "Business is off 50% in television sets and almost as much in refrigerators and stoves...
After a month of studies each trainee takes a four-week job, selected to acquaint her with unskilled work in some commercial observation. These jobs have included scrubbing floors in a hospital, lugging lumber about in a door factory in Pittsburgh, putting heels on rubber boots, and packing candy at Brigham...
...second quarter, the 22 major U.S. manufacturing industries earned $3.2 billion after taxes, 34% more than in the previous quarter and 59% more than in the same period in 1949, the SEC reported last week. Largest increases were in such housing boom products as furniture and fixtures, lumber and wood, stone, clay and glass, and in cars and auto parts. Only decreases: printing and publishing, clothes and finished textiles, textile mill products...
...longtime member of the editorial staffs of TIME and FORTUNE who now writes novels in the south of France, knows his milieu. He has a long memory for the provincial feel, the sights, sounds, and faded scandals of the Delaware country. If there is a bit too much historical lumber and corn in The Barons, he has managed to infuse enough animal vigor into his story to make it absorbing and as close to Balzac as any modern author...