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Show Industry Set To Meet U.S. Veneer Needs American defense mobilization finds the hardwood veneer industry indus-try prepared to meet not only the nation's military needs, but its civilian requirements as well. Record production in 1950, when a total of 1,130,000,000 square feet of hardwood face veneers were produced, has geared the industry to fill whatever what-ever demands may be made upon it in the present emergency. New, improved equipment also has contributed con-tributed to the expansion of veneer ve-neer mills. Veneer shipments topped the billion mark last year for the first time in the industry's history,: sales totaling 1,176,000,000 square feet. This figure represents an increase in-crease of 76 percent over 1949 when 667,000,000 square feet of hardwood veneers were sold. Makers of television sets used 350,000,000 square feet of hardwood hard-wood veneers last year, indicating indicat-ing the buyer preference of wood . cabinets for better tone quality. Although 50,000,000 square feet of timber was required to produce volume of face veneers, the supply sup-ply of domestic and imported lof continues to be adequate to mail tain the current high level production. |