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O$icicl U, S. Ncvy pbotr Hitchcoctc'. 136-loot mine aw€sp€ra under coutructiou ct Hubbcrd's Souih Coast Co,, Newport Hcrbbr. Complimeats "Sec,"

From a small acorn a lllighty lumber yarcl ancl service station grew. A completc planing mil1 r,vas installed; a big battery of six dry kilns; a veneer mill ; a green bending oak unit; facilities of every modern sort for preparing their varied lumber stocks for market.

They got into the business of furnishing lumber for ships and aircraft long ago. In 1925 tvhen a fleet of Douglas planes startled the civilized rvorld by flying in a group all the way round the world, the lurnber that t'ent into those planes was furnishecl by the Western Hardrvood l-umber Company. They furnished mahogany and walnut for the propellers; oak and mahogany for the pontoons; spruce for the wings and fuselage. They have been continuously in the aircraft lumber business in a steadily increasing way ever since. Also they have been continuouslv furnishing more and more lumlter and tim,bers for ship and boat ltuilclitg. When the second World War started it found the Western Hardwood Lumber Company doing a tremendous business with the users and consumers of harclrvood and specialty soft'rvood lrrmber throughout Southern California, serving the furniture trade, the varied irrdustrial trade, the retail lumber dealer trade, and every other line of business that used hardwoods and specialty softrvoods. The yard and plant had grown to tremendous proportions. Lt the rnanv sheds ancl giant yard were to be founcl thd congregated specialty $'oods still obtainable throughout the \\'orld.

The nerv rvar found D. J. Cahill still acting as general overseer of t1-re affairs of the company, and Frank J. Connolly, Vice President and (leneral Manager, capably handling the burdens of the cletailecl management of so largc and varied a business, as he has been doing for many years. They put their heads together, those trvo, :rnd deCided to go to war. As has already been stated, thev foresaw not only the unlimited possibilities but like.rvise the obligations rvhich this greatest of all wars was bringing like an avalanche upon the lumler inclustrv, and they rlccidecl to wait not a minute, but to preparc thentsclves for active participation in the industrial battle that rv:rs conriug.

How rvell thev dicl so is attested by the fact that todav their business is 100 per cent war, and 93 per cent of everything they sell moves on AAI ratings. They began eariy in 1940 to build a stock pile of lunrber and hardu'ood timbers based on war requirements. Today they have corrsiclerably more lumber in stock than they have ever ha<l at any previous time in their history. On their foresight and accomplishment in securing this great accun-rnlation o[

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