Word: cedar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that has lured burly loggers from their hibernation and drawn orchardmen back to their pear trees. In this lovely, sparsely populated land, dark green trees provide jobs and profits. But among the budding fruit boughs of the Rogue River Valley and in isolated clearings hacked deep in the quiet cedar and pine forests, new patches of a distinctly lighter green are flourishing this spring. Like pears and firs, this crop is a moneymaker, yielding an estimated $70 million a year. But, unlike the other natural products of the valley, it is illegal. The plant is sinsemillas (Spanish for seedless...
...business of oil and gas. The company spent more than $200 million last year in stepped-up onshore exploration in the U.S. It also paid $314 million last June to acquire twelve drilling tracts in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf spent $400 million to $500 million to build its Cedar Bayou ethylene plant near Houston; it opened last year but, say industry sources, has never operated at more than 60% of capacity, causing a substantial drain on Gulfs petrochemical earnings. Gulf also acquired for $455 million Kewanee Industries, a specialty chemical firm. In all, the company's 1977 capital spending...
...already looks like one. Bari Boshes, 17, a senior at New Trier East High School, in a suburb north of Chicago, was besieged with letters from Coe College, a small liberal arts school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa-and she had not even applied there. "Learn why we might be the right choice for you," implored the Coe admissions office...
...Seashore has a visitor center in Eastham which is helpful, interesting and attractive. Also in Eastham, and part of the Seashore, are Coast Guard Beach and the Red Cedar Swamp. There is a path through the swamp which few people know about even though it is publicized at the visitors' center, well worth the hour it takes to walk...
...help the neediest families, the U.M.W. credit union has opened a temporary office in nearby Cedar Grove that has lent up to $500 each to some 1,000 District 17 miners at interest of 1% a month, payable within a year after the strike ends. In addition, Cabin Creek stores, following the tradition of the coal fields, are extending credit to the miners and not pressing them for payment, even though most of the merchants are also hurting financially. Close by Cabin Creek, business at the Marmet Furniture Store is off 50%. Down the road, employees of Wendy...