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How Big Should a Two-by-Four Be Stirring Debate
Washington sues over lumber standards as the Commerce Department weighs shaving dry two by fours from 156 to 144 inches. The move pits NLMA and large producers against Western Forest Industries and critics in Congress led by McCormack Kennedy and Roosevelt. Hodges faces pressure from Abe Fortas and Thurman Arnold to act, with potential housing cost savings and shifts in timber profits in play.
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Washington
Johnson
John McCormack
Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Commerce
Luther T Hadges
Commerce Department
Esther Peter Bar
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co
Western Forest Industries Association
Weyerhaeuser
Georgia Pacific
Pope and
Yallcott
Hodges
American Lumber Standards Committee
ALS Committee
Mortimer B. Dayic
National Lumber Manufacturers
NLMA
American Institute of Architects
National Association of Home Builders
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
National American Wholesale Lumber Association
Southern and Western Pine Associations
California Redwood Association
West Coast Lumbermen’s Association
Speaker McCormack
Edward M. Kennedy
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Boston
James Roosevelt
D-Calif
California
ALS
Senate
Franklin Jr
LBJ
Arnold, Fortas and Porter
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Thurman Arnold
Plumbers’ Association
Arnold
Congress