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Plywood is recognized cs the strongest known moteriql per unit of weight. Constructed oi wood lominqe whose groins run qt right ongles with eoch other, plywood overcomes the noturol deficiencies of iumber by eliminoting weckness ocross the groin ond reducing exponsion qnd contrqction to o minimum. IT

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To it opply the sqme fundqmentql engineering principles qs underlie the fobricotion ol huqe wire cqbles Irom tiny wire strqnds-the strength of the combined plies is greoter thqn the combined Jtrength of the seporote plies. Add to this principle the stqrtling developments due to modern odhesives qnj modern production mechqnics ond it is eosy to understqnd why plywood is specilied where strength, lightness qnd low installcrtion costs crre required.

To tl,rese quclificcrtions, WELDWOOD now cdds unquclilied stcbility under crny crnd crll conditions of instcllction through the cpplicction oI chemicclly inert, phenol-formcldehyde (bckelite-type) resin crs cr binder between the plies.

WETDWOOD is crbsolutely WATERPROOF, vermin repellent qnd heat-resistcrnt up to the chcrring point oI the wood.

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Building of SmallHomes Increases Lumber Demand

Washington, lttly 12,-For the first time in 1938 new business for softwood lumber placed with United State sawmills during the last week of June equalled the new business of the corresponding period in 1937. During the same week new business in hardwoods was a fourth greater in volume than a month ago, and in excess of current productio.n by more than one-half. New business for all lumber was greater by eight per cent than in any previous week of 1938.

The ratio of current production to new business for the combinecl softwood and hardwood lumber industry and the volume of new business were the most favorable in over ten months. Lumber inventories at mid-year were. less than ten per cent greater than a year ago and in some important regions the lowest in two years.

The lumber industry enters the last half of the year with inventories which are generally not excessive, and with an activity of demand out of the ordinary for this season of the year.

The drastic deflation of prices at the sawmills during the past nine months which had closed hundreds of mills in the West and South seems to have reached an end, the average decline during the past year in hardwoods having been twenty-six per cent and in softwood twenty-three per cent. The average reduction in whotresale lumber prices at points of sawmill production during this period has been greater than the corresponding reductions in any other of the major building materials and, until the end of the first half of this year, the gradual reduction of these lumber prices has been almost continuous for over a year and has included in varying degree every major species of both softwoods and hardwoods.

The current improvement in the demand for lumber today, said Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is traceable partly to anticipated higher production costs in the South. Principally it is due to the increasing volume of consumption in the building of small homes. This has been aided by the fact that within the range of low-priced small homes a better house, with better equipment, can be secured now at a cost lower than in 1926, and at a cost lower than at any time during the past three years'

The Association is just completing in suburban Washington a "test" group of modern small homes of four to seven rooms, at construction costs ranging between less than $2500 to $3600, using a number of novel methods of lumber construction. This has been done under the auspices of the National Small Homes Demonstration, a co-operative national activity of the principal building material and equipment industries.

Back From Favorite Spot

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back in his office on July 25.from two weeks' vacation spent in Trinity Alps; Trinity County. He has passed many vacations in this area and likes it as well as ever.

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