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Article: NEW FOR THE HOUSE -- A SNEAK PREVIEW
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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If there is nothing new under the sun in the building
business, there certainly are a lot of new variations on the old
materials that go into building houses -- and fixing them up.
You could see a lot of them in a huge exhibit earlier this
month at the World Trade Center in Boston, if you were a lumberman.
The exhibit -- hundreds of display booths with every kind of
material you would want -- was a part of the Northeast Lumbermen's
Association annual convention. The lumbermen -- the people who run
lumber yards and stores -- meet every year to see what's new and
what they can sell in 1987.
The exhibit was like a big home show, but was open only to the
lumbermen. Incidentally, the ...