lumber
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Inside a factory alongside Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley, a forklift delivered a stack of precut lumber to two waiting carpenters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026
Pinky Cubacub, 55, said as she boarded up the windows of her eatery in Guam that she had lined up early on Saturday morning to buy $500 worth of plywood at a lumber store.
From Barron's • Jul. 5, 2026
Set on 5.3 acres overlooking the Ottawa River, 24 Sussex was built in 1868 by a lumber baron and member of Parliament as a gift to his third wife.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
The back garden now resembles a landfill site, with a huge pile of seed trays, lumber, compost and empty bottles of growing solution left behind.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
Two summers later, a dozen or so blacks struck a deal to work on a lumber dock.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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