Department of Commerce Standards

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When the letters FDI appear as part of the grade trade-merk they certify that the doors sc marked not only meet quality Commercial Standards CS73-48 but have been officially inspected by the Fir'Door Institute and, at the buyer's request, will be covered by notarized Certi ficate of Inspection.

BP doors are of multiple-piecestile construction; and are so designated, because they are ideal for paint or enamel finish.

srtLEs, RAILS, AND MulltoNs-This stock shall be of vertical grain faces rvith some coarse grain permitted. It shall be sound in all respects, and may contain sap, light stains, streaks, burls, and neatly repaired pitch seams. Glued-up members are permissible. A moisture-resistant glue shall be used. Mixing of woods is permissible provided both stiles are of a single specie.

PANELS-FLAT vENEERED.-The standard thickness of 3. ply flat veneered panels shall be /a inch after sanding. Each face shall be of one or more pieces of firm smoothly cut veneer. When of more than one piece, it shall be well j oined and reasonably matched for grain and color at the joints. It shall be free from knots, splits, checks, pitch pockets, and other open defects. Streaks, discolorations, sapwood, shims, and neatly made patches shall be admitted.

PANELfRAISED-.The standard thickness of raised pancls shall be not more than9/16 inch before sanding and not Iess than 7 /16 inch after sanding. They may be either slash or mixed grain, or mixed woods and shall conform to the grade of the stiles and rails. Glued-up, solid panels are permissible.

turned on the radio and caught Frank Sinatra singing "Jingle Bells." He sang that rollicking song of happiness in the same funereal fashion he sings everything. His singing is as lonesome as a November rain, falling on the grave of an orphan child.

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A General Motors official in a holiday speech uttered these novel thoughts about the automobile industry: "The automobile industry is the greatest business in the world. Automobiles cost less per pound than butter, coffee, or even soap flakes. According to the last federal census there are more automobiles in the United States than there are bathtubs, telephones, or houses wired for electricity." Let those facts rattle around. They'll make you ponder.

J. R. Oppenheimer, big shot in the development of the atom bomb, uttered this novel thought on that subject: "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannotlose."

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Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, lady big shot in Roosevelt's New Deal, said this: "The new look shows everything you want to hide and hides everything you want to show."

Clement Attlee, pri*. uliJu ot Britain, said (and these are sad words for all of us) : "The road is longer than we thought."

Education sank to " ,r.l*, ,"*-," 1948, in Pittsburg, Pa., at any rate. The City advertised for a street sweeper at a salary of $3,170 per year, and for a college degree naturalist to work in the city parks at $2,239 per year.

If you want to know rvho pays the bills for the overpriced radio programs you listen to, responsible auditors figure that the products sold in grocery stores pay f.or 26 per cent of them, and products sold in drug stores are second with 19 per cent.

Coffee drinking rose to a new high in 1948 in the United States, our people consuming l8l potnds per head, as compared with 14 pounds before 1939. Reason, we make coffee stronger than we used to, more of us drink it, and most of us who do drink it, do so oftener than of old. The old idea about coffee keeping you awake belongs up on the shelf with the cold pie. It just never was true. But the BELIEF that it did, kept lots of folks awake.

Mr. Hoffman, who is spending our billions abroad for ECA, reports that the average worker in Western Europe made $320 a year in 1948, but that the way things are going this will increase to about $425 this year.

And it may surprise you to know-and it is a fact-that British shipbuilding returned so strongly in 1948 that more than half of all the ship tonnage under construction in the entire world at present, is building in Britain. More than 2.2 rnillion tons of ships were under construction in that country late in 1948.

The figures for the last of the year are not in yet, but only 179,000 new business firms started up in this country during the first six months of 1948, as against 238,000 in the same months ol L947, and 356,000 in the same period in 1946. fn some lines, more concerns went out of business in 1948 than new concerns started.

Rupert Hughes, famous writer and lecturer, was asked about Communists in this country, and how the prosperous ones get that way, and he said, in part: "I think true Communists are born that way. They commit Communism in their cradles. They are just stinkers from birth. The Reds abhor America and preach up Communism in which everybody is wretched and underpaid or shot, except a few tyrants and their pets. Those twistwits hate their own country where anybody can work his way up out of poverty. They adore a country where everybody is poor and stays that way until he has either cheated or slaughtered his way to the top, or has been liquidated. The asylums are full of poor souls who think crooked. We pity them. And perhaps we should pity our Communists."

And now we close with a two liner from the L. A. News, which says: "Just when we think we can relax, Come license plates, and income tax."

Remember: There are six appearance grades of Exterior-type Douglas fir plywood-(PlyShield included)-and six corresponding grades of Interiortype. Each grade is manufactured to meet a specific building need. The 1949 Basic Plywood Catalog, recently mailed to lumber dealers, gives full grade use information. Additional copies of this helpful selling-aid can be secured by writing the Douglas Fir,Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington,