Hardwood Kecord — Veneer & Panel Section 



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LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 

 CYPRESS 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



WALNUT LUMBER 



30,000 ft. 1 FAS 



3,000 ft. 5 4 FAS 



1,000 ft. 8 4 FAS. 



200,000 ft. 1" No. 1 C. 

 15,000 ft. 5 4 No. 1 C. 

 I 1,000 ft. 6 4 No. 1 C. 

 3,000 ft. 8 4 No. 1 C. 



150,000 ft. 4 4 No. 2C. 



38,000 ft. 5 4 No. 2 C. 



28,000 ft. 6 4 No. 2 C. 



22,000 ft. 8 4 No. 2 C. 



VENEERS 

 255,000 ft. 1 28 Mahogany 327,000 ft. 1 28 Mahogany 367,000 ft. 1 28" Butt Walnut 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



when he was trying to interest our government and some 

 of the allied governments in veneer panels. His work was 

 largely educational, as his report shows. A summary of 

 his work follows: 



I met representatives of the foreign war missions interested 

 in single ply and plywood. At an inter-allied conference held in 

 Paris .shortly after this country was forced into the war, it seems 

 it was decided that all allied governmental purchases made over 

 here should clear through one body. The Council of National 

 Defense was designated as this clearing house. As there was no 

 director of plywood and veneer, these matters were passing 

 through the office of the director of lumber. At that time the 

 foreign buying for private account did not have to pass through 

 the council and the only check on that was at the bureau of 

 exports. 



There has been and undoubtedly is, quite a bit of French 

 purchasing of our product, but, so far as I could find out, it 

 was all done by individuals, and the French Government itself 

 was not in the market. There were several indications that it 

 might be and I was at the French military mission quite often but 

 could learn of no developments. 



The purchases of the British wer 

 concerns but they were regulated s 

 ernment that they were handled a 

 originated with the British War M 

 of their officer in charge of veneer i 

 son. Royal Flying Corps, afforded 



also being made by private 

 strictly by the British gov- 

 lost exactly as though they 

 ■ion. The business methods 

 d ply-wood, Capt. D. Thom- 

 1 most pleasant contrast to 



some of the tactics employed by members of our own service. 

 Capt. Thomson played the game in the open and with his cards 

 on the table, like the true captain and Scotch gentleman that he 

 is. The results he obtained speak more highly of his methods than 

 I possibly could. 



The Italians, I believe, had been doing no private buying of 



veneer and plywood. There were many rumors that their govern- 

 ment would be in the market shortly, and finally their military 

 mission applied for a permit to purchase. The application sur- 

 vived the red tape route and in due course reached the office 

 of the director of lumber. It was granted and I had a letter from 

 the lumber director advising our war service committee that this 

 material was required and asking us to give them all the informa- 

 tion we could about it. This we did and we were asked to assist 

 the Italian mission in every way possible to obtain the material. 

 It looked for a time as though we were going to be some real 

 help, but one of the other departments asked the director of lum- 

 ber to let it handle the matter and I do not know whether or not 

 the material was ever purchased. It was just at this time the 

 committee called me back from Washington, and I have heard 

 nothing regarding it since. 



These three, the French, British and Italian, were the chief 

 allied war missions and the only ones at that time at all in- 

 terested in our product. And of these, the British alone, so far 

 as I know, bought anything and their purchases, while large, were 

 indirect. The committee tried very hard to be of help to each 

 of these missions, but conditions were such and the red tape was 

 so red that very little actual good could be accomplished. 



Among our own war boards the ones with which I came most in 

 contact were the Ordnance Department, the Naval Aircraft Con- 

 struction, and the Signal Corps. 



The chief difficulty with the situation of the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment was that none of our product was bought direct. Large 

 numbers of shell boxes might be purchased and these boxes might 

 call for a great deal of ply-wood for partitions or diaphragms, but 

 beside seeing that it is up to grade, the item of plywood as such 

 would not interest the ordnance department in the least, for they 

 let the contract for a certain number of boxes, and it is up 

 to the box makers to secure the material specified. In most boxes 

 the specifications called for either solid lumber or plywood parti. 



