Sentences with phrase «many of the lumbering»

• BlueLinx Corporation, a subsidiary of BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BXC), agreed to acquire Cedar Creek Holdings, Inc., an Oklahoma City, Okla. - based distributor of lumber and building materials, for an aggregate purchase price of $ 413 million.

West Fraser, a supplier of lumber to Home Depot, said it was ensuring deliveries to its customers were as regular as possible.

Earlier this year Quebec introduced a wood charter, which doesn't force but strongly encourages the use of lumber as the chief material in provincial projects.

It did a bustling business as a supplier of lumber and other building materials to contractors for new construction and remodeling jobs.

In only six months he'd reached beyond the cyclical business of lumber companies, adding utilities, auto - parts suppliers, and cutlery manufacturers to the client list.

«Given that home builders are already grappling with 20 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and that the price of lumber and other key building materials are near record highs, this announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time.

This process has been a key weapon in Canada's arsenal in fighting softwood duties, and U.S. negotiators would be asking Canada to give it up in the middle of a lumber fight.

The group claims the amendments would give suppliers of lumber, natural resources and other commodities a more equal playing field during disputes.

Indeed, Canada is already bracing for another volley of duties on billions of dollars worth of lumber exports — an industry that has enjoyed only brief interludes of free trade since the late 1980s.

A report from the Canada West Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, argues that U.S. market share of lumber is unlikely to decrease under the current agreement.

The price of a lumber package per house for our company has increased between $ 4000 to $ 5000.

On one expiration, he made a mistake and had to take delivery of a lot of lumber.

«have access to a sufficient supply of lumber» Access means nothing really.

Howard urged Ross to work with his Canadian counterparts to craft an equitable long - term solution to the trade dispute that would ensure an adequate supply of lumber to the U.S. marketplace at a reasonable price.

In their May 2015 paper entitled «Lumber: Worth Its Weight in Gold: Offense and Defense in Active Portfolio Management», Charles Bilello and Michael Gayed examine the recent relative performance of lumber (a proxy for economic activity via construction) and gold (a safe haven) as an indicator of future stock market and bond market performance.

When the housing market is active, the stock of lumber companies will tend to rise.

But right now, all the materials are all just lying around as piles of lumber and boxes of nails.

It is a beautifully sad story, an elegy on the world of New Brunswick woodsmen and their women after the Second World War, when the old ways of lumbering, around which everything turned, were being forced to give way to the mechanization brought by American companies capitalizing on an insatiable market for fancier toilet paper and endlessly multiplied government reports.

He may, in practice, treat it as a piece of lumber, but he regards it in theory as a piece of necessary lumber, however useless and inconvenient.

Both Ephesus and Corinth were great centers of the lumber industry in ancient times.

It would be a nice looking loaf for my friend, since I bartered bread for a bunch of her old canvases from last semester (a total score for me, since a handbuilt stretcher costs about $ 15 of lumber from Lowe's).

I put the caveat out there simply to keep people from grilling with a random piece of lumber.

Since the re-introduction of lumbering «oaf ball» we have gone backwards, we do not play attractive football we have only won 2 FA cups, we have become a laughing stock, and we definitely can no longer compete with the best.

Leaves a world record player on the bench in favour of a lumbering midfielder who won't be at the club next year.

A white - coated figure in a laboratory bashes a blonde on the head with a piece of lumber.

I wanted to make it all absolutely numb, like a piece of lumber.

I use to buy a ton of lumber (over 2 million boardfeet a year) for a millwork company and our better always sent us 4/4 at 1 1/6» net thickness.

We cut a total of 48 pieces and used all of the lumber we bought.

The addition of a lumber support pillow makes all the different in the world.

Portion of the lumber was milled from trees harvested at Drumlin Farm (larch for the porch decking was harvested to clear the area for the new building)

(Think of a lumber yard.)

The convention that produced the current state constitution gave birth to Forever Wild in 1894 and helped break the grip of lumber interests on state politics, said Evan Davis, manager of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention.

For example, you can make several adjustments to the 6 - inch, cast - iron fence, which is perfect for re-sawing thick pieces of lumber.

Long pieces of lumber much like standard two - by - fours are glued together edge to edge, forming sheets.

Pausing often to impart salacious details on lobster sex — females strip off their exoskeletons before they do it — Corson maps the changing fortunes of the lumbering crustacean, a creature that provides the livelihood of the hardy Maine fishermen he profiles and is a source of fascination to the scientists who study it.

«If you're building a deck, you have to cut large sections of lumber to length, and that's often done on site,» says CSAIL postdoc Jeffrey Lipton, who was a lead author on a related paper about the system.

Because 2x3s are on the cheap end of the lumber spectrum, they'll be looking a little wonky after the cutting phase of the project:

You just can't write a history of the 1700s to 1900s dating scene of this city, and beyond, without mentioning the creation of the Rideau Canal, which was formative in the ensuing capitalization of the city as the seat of the entire nation's government, plus instrumental in the growth of the lumber industry, as well as making possible all the connections with American and European people who brought so much of their cultures to the nation itself.

But, unfortunately, this gives Black Panther a bit of a lumbering start.

Fast - running and especially - strong zombies show up on the minimap, as do all human foes, but there are plenty of lumbering oafs waiting just around the corner to grab the unsuspecting.

Kelly was light as a feather on his feet, while Tatum's tapping has a more of a lumbering quality to it, but I still appreciated the effort.

Reminders of lumber's importance are everywhere, from the smile on each year's Logger Days Queen to the shine on the flagpole - high axe sculpture in front of the high school.

Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack, a mythical hero of the lumber camps in this country, notes Encyclopaedia Britannica, adding that he is «a symbol of bigness, strength, and vitality.»

These bits of lumber are separated by polished metal trim that also provides an element of contrast.

When we ran the super speedways, we'd jam a 2 - by -4-inch piece of lumber under the upholstery next to my right hip as a brace.

A wayward chunk of lumber broke the MDX's lower grille insert, which cost $ 170.89 to replace.

Sportside's 5.7 - liter, 210 - horsepower V - 8 gives this truck more than enough pep to handle the interstate or to haul a load of lumber or bricks for a weekend project.

Later, we sampled the same route in a stripped - down XL SuperCab with 1,000 pounds of lumber in the bed (about half its payload).

Snow squalls, heavy winds and occasional black ice make this route treacherous and nerve - wracking, especially at night — which adds the danger of lumbering moose attracted to salt on the roads.

Similarly, with 454 kg of lumber strapped into the pickup bed of a basic XL Super Cab, the impressive torque easily met all my power demands without hesitation.