Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned by St. Joe Paper Co., and Texas has 3,400,000 acres producing fast-growing Southern pines for U.S. construction and pulp mills. But the biggest operations are in the Pacific Northwest, where the idea first took root. There the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Potlatch Forests, J. Neils Lumber, Crown Zellerbach, Long-Bell Rayonier, and other large companies have nearly 8,000,000 acres of tall Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock, spruce and pine spreading across four states...
...woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
...friend was a peacock which used to wait for her each morning. "I would go to the garden and we would walk, you might say, arm in arm. When asked why I loved him so, I answered, 'Because he's beautiful, and be cause he wears a crown!' " That idyll ended when father Sitwell bought the peacock a wife. "From that moment the peacock neglected me. It was my first insight into the fickleness of living creatures...
Still smarting from Tuesday's unexpected tie with spirited Brown, the varsity will be anxious to gain the first leg in its bid to capture the Pentagonal crown for the second straight year, and perhaps to impress Dartmouth coach Eddie Jeremiah. Jeremiah is a member of the board that will select the Eastern representatives to the NCAA Championship tourney in Colorado this spring...
...campaign by Light Heavyweight champion Archie Moore for a crack at Rocky Mareiano's heavyweight crown took the form today of a want ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch personal column, asking "information" on how to get the fight...