31.   Hiring was exceptionally strong all winter and spring and shortages of both skilled workers and construction materials may be the problem.

32.   If construction materials are scarce, they wait longer.

33.   In addition to the decline in demand, another factor pushing home prices above the mid-range is the rising cost of construction materials such as lumber.

34.   In Austria, a leading producer of construction materials has been cut off from its Romanian cement suppliers.

35.   In return, they must organize and advertise the giveaway events and retrieve the old toilets, which are crushed and used as road construction materials.

36.   Inventories of lumber, other construction materials and furniture increased during the month.

37.   It paid the rest back in construction materials, state promissory notes and even sugar.

38.   Lately, it seemed, the government had stopped construction materials from coming into the camps in order to prevent any further building.

39.   Leading the trend is Home Depot, the biggest retail purveyor of construction materials in the country.

40.   Like most of its competitors, Alumax is benefiting from the rising use of aluminum in automobiles and light trucks and strong demand for construction materials, analysts said.