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Show Lumber Production Doivn 10 Per Cent Drop in 1943 Is Shown in ! Report of Survey. i I WASHINGTON Lumber production produc-tion last year, estimated at 32,500,-000,000 32,500,-000,000 feet, will be 10 per cent below be-low 1942 output, the lumber survey committee announced in a quarterly report describing the lumber economy econ-omy as "tight." The committee said the industry on November 1 had only 75 per cent of the number of employees needed for maximum operation. The labor deficiency as well as critically low log reserves and inadequate equipment, equip-ment, it added, were superimposed upon inclement weather to hold third quarter production to 13 per cent below the same period a year ago. Stocks of lumber at mills and in distributors' hands were reported "extremely low," with unfilled orders or-ders on October 31 representing 91 per cent of all stocks. |