The rise in housing starts since the market bottomed last year "means more demand for construction equipment and steel and lumber and other materials that we haul, " Mr. Tennant said.

WSJ: Economy Adds 88,000 Jobs

The price of steel, lumber, concrete, health insurance, everything - I've been buying and selling in this location since 1989, and I have never seen in a shorter period of time prices on everything across the board go up at the way that they're going up right now.

NPR: Economic Check-Up in Broken Bow

On the trade front, not only did President Bush enact tariffs on steel, softwood lumber and shrimp, his administration regularly bashed Chinese export policies, as has the Obama administration.

FORBES: Political Economy

The list of errors by Bush (think steel and softwood lumber tariffs, Ben Bernanke, Harriet Miers, Obamacare designer John Roberts?) could surely fill a book, but with space in mind, his saving grace in 2004 was that the horrors of his dollar policies had not quite hit the economy yet, plus we were at war.

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Berwind, a coal magnate, who had interests in railroads, steel, utilities and lumber.

WSJ: Pieces of a Mansion Puzzle on Block

Other elements of a rustic look include reclaimed lumber, exposed steel and earthy colors.

WSJ: Creating a Dining Room With Wow Factor

His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.

ECONOMIST: How the internet works

GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.

ECONOMIST: The 2010 Winter Olympics

Construction materials for housing typically include lumber, wood, gravel, metal, iron, and steel.

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