Lumber

promises c Arecter future for wood

Fon rHr NATtoN's essential construction, the products of the forest were always at hand-and ready for use. Logs built the early cabins and stockades-hewn into timbers, they built bridges and boats-fashioned into dimension and boards, anod bailt America-its homes, churches, schools, factories, stores and farm buildings.

under the mandate of each new necessity, the quality, the form, and the application of lumber improved. rfood constantly serves new uses, both urban and rural, becaase uood is econonical and easily uorhable.

The rush of war needs for coonri.ss materials made demands on all our nation's resources. High on the list was lumber. From timber-line. to laminated arch rafters, and reco trusses for modern factories and airplane hangars, to plywood shells, for air and water craft, wood accomplished in weeks what would otherwise have required months.

The record of wood in rhe war marks still funher advancemenr in the development of lumber. Research freed wood from foimer limitations of the log. New ways of forming and shaping wood, new methods of joining and bonding it have given us such products as laminated wood rafters, various forms of plywood, and many other newer products.

Lumber dealers will find in the furure expanding markets for lumber in their communities-new ways to serve those markets better, because engineering in lumber has more than ever established irs economy, utility, and adaptability.

glrtlNo lN TODAY'! nerxrr-Today, more than in any other period, the home owner and farmer are more fully aware of the imporance of maintenance and repair. Norwithstanding the less than normal flow of lumber for civilian requirements' it is still serving these essential markets. In combination with othermaterials, lumber will help you serve in rnany ways your city and farm customers.