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WHOLEIiAI.E LUMBER, & PTYWOOD

PEGGY GNEENWOOO SCOTI GOULD DE! IRAVIS

Los Angeles Building Paces Nation

According to 'Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., Los Angeles set a building pace for the first four months of 1953 which the rest of the nation's cities were unable to keep up with. In fact the California city led by a wide margin for construction totals, not even excluding.giant New Ybrk with her five counties that included Brooklyn.

The $160,093,254 worth of building permits issued in Los Angeles during the first four months of this year topped the New York total by $10,709,493, exceeded by g59,71I,754 the combined totals of Chicago and Philadelphia and topped the Detroit amount by 990,170,065.

These comparisons are drawn from a table of buildingpermit valuation reports compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.

Disclosed by that table are the 25 cities with the highest four-month totals in the order listed as follows:

Four months, 1953

Also from the Dun & Bradstreet report are the following excefpts:

"Estimated expenditures for building permits issued during April reached the highest volume ever recorded for that month and were exceeded only in three other p6nfl5-May, June and August of the boom year 1950. The total valuation of permits for 215 cities during April came to 9529,W4,414.

"This was 27.6% above the same 1952 month with $415,46,459 and I3.2/o more than the preceding month with $468,133,028. Building plans filed in New York City last month amounted to $50,678,096, a drop of 4.6/o from $53,123,323 in April last year but a gain of I9.l/o above the March figure of. $42,546,378."

New Displcy

New York-A new display showing twelve types of Weldwood hardwood plywood is presently being made available to dealers by United States Plywood Corporation. Measuring 18 inches in width and 30 inches in height, the display is equipped with both bracket and chain so that it can be stood on a counter or hung on a wall.

Also available to dealers through U. S. Plywood are booklets which explain the easy installation and finishing of Weldwood plywood panels.