60 YEARS AGO.Wood Products Industry Readies for Needs of Defense Program IN THE VAST armament program for national defense now getting under way throughout the nation, the wood products and lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to industries will play a leading role. It has already been estimated that this enterprise will require not less than 5 billion feet of lumber during the next 12 months. Of this footage total, it has been calculated that about 1.5 billion feet will be utilized for troop barracks bar·rack 1 tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters. n. 1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel. and housing, the same amount for navy yard and industrial uses. About 750 million feet of lumber will be used for heavy construction items like docks, airdromes and warehouses and a similar amount will be required for the crating and shipping of war materials and supplies. What the National Defense program may mean to the furniture industry will be emphasized em·pha·size tr.v. em·pha·sized, em·pha·siz·ing, em·pha·siz·es To give emphasis to; stress. [From emphasis.] Adj. 1. by most of the speakers who are to address the annual meeting of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers this month in Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. . |
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