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Gypsum wallboard craftsmen know the importance of Blue Diamond uniform.itg. Uniform characteristics aid in the fast production of smooth, ffre resistant walls and ceilings. ,Uniformity is a result of quality control.

Blue Diamond quality control begins with the grading of gypsum rock at the mines. It carries through every step of gypsum wallboard manufacture to the ffnal placement of dunnage to safeguard its condition in transit.

Applicator craftsmanship and Blue Diamond uniformity join hands in producing smooth . soUd fire resistant walls and ceilings.

Co. in San Francisco a.fter a trip to the company sawmill in Bandon, Ore. . illm Forley, assistant western salesmanager of The Pacific Lumber Co.. returned to San Francisco after a week in Hollywood in connection with the movie being fiImed there for the California Redwood Assn. Ed Green of Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; Blll l(ondrlck of Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, and Ben Malsler of Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno, all used the airplane as their means of transportation to the annual retail dealers'convention in San Diego itrack Dlonne still finds himself in the thick of the "Mahogany" fight in an editorial in this issue.

Frenk If. Harrls and Dtch Jones of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, made an automobile tour of the redwood, fir and cedar producing regions E. A. "Alox" Gordon, salesman for Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, is back from a business trip to Los Angeles in connection with the laminated kraft paper the firm is distributing . . . Advertised in this issue is a new book called "The Coming Motor Boom and Subsequent Slump," said to survey the probabilities for growth in the

It's tho latest decoratlng idea from tho plywooil lndustry, an exotlc yet iligntffeit wall, furniture and coblnot pa,nellng that ts entirely dllferent. Tho natural ltght-toneil wood has both a delicate vertlcal grain antl unusual horlzontal gra,ln patterns. Sllced a,nd lald carefully by ha,nil from Orlontal b'amboo, the new lmport is betng marketed under a,n excluslve contract by GeorglaPaclffc Corp.

Tho authentlc bamboo veneier, wtth tts a,ttractlvo cross pattern coused by the barnboo joints, forms the face on a solid Lauan plywood core and back. The 8-foot panels come in 24-lnch wlilth for %-inch and Bp_lnch wl6th for r/4_lnch.

A freo full-color booklet plcturlng other beautiful new plywoods is ava,llable by writing Georgla-Pa,clfic Corp., Equitable Bldg.' Portland 4, Ore.

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