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Predicts Annuql Five-Yecrr Construction

Iob of $15,000,000,000

The U. S. Department of Labor in a recent report predicts an averag'e volume of new construction ol $10,924,000,000 per year and an averag'e volume of maintenance and repair work of $4,418,m0,000 per year during the final war year and the first five postwar years. The average for private new constJuction'is estimated at $7,896,000,00O per 1'ear and for public new construction at $4,028,000,000.

The largest single-item of private new construction is residential, non-farm building estimated at 850,000 units per year average. In addition the report predicts 50,000 publicly financed non-farm units per year average. This total of 900,000 units is about 3 per cent above the highest previous five year average of 872,0ffi non-farm units realized from 1923 through 1927.

With respect to construction materials, the report states:

"Greater use may be expected of 'certain materials introduced within recent )'ears, and there are strong indications that other neu' materials will be introduced. Sp"cifically, it seems almost certain that panel boards (plywood, panels made from various fibrous materials, and those made from inorganic materials) will be more prominent, and it is quite probable that war-expanded capacity for production of light metals may lead to considerable increase in their use in construction."

If lumber is to cut its full slice of this rich market in the face of the intensive competition that is certain to be battling to encroach on its territory, it will require more concentrated and co-ordinated efforts on the part of lum- bermen than they have ever put forth before.

The NLMA Building Code & Trade Promotion Committee recently met and laid down an ambitious 1946 program to this end. The Lumber Manufacturer-Retailer Co-Operative Program, which is aimed primarily at home building, will spearhead the. attack.

Studying Germcn Forest Industries

Headed by Director Carlisle P. Winslow, eight staff members of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory are in Germany investigating, industrial and technical secrets of its forest products industries. Much of the information .acquired will be of value to American industry, reports Acting Director George M. Hunt.

Director Winslow and D. G. Coleman of the Laboratory staff are representing a forest products subcommittee of the Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee organized by the Foreign Economic Administration, War and Navy Departments, Office of Strategic Services, War Production Board, and Department of Agriculture. George W. Trayer, Chief of the Division of Forest Products, Washington, D. C., heads the subcommittee.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo

Meeting

Oct. 16

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will meet at the University Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Tuesday noon, October 16. Dr. Richard Vollrath, world. renowned scientist, head of the physics department at the University of Southern California, will be the speaker. His subject will be "The Atom Bomb." President George Clough will preside.

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