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Word: firs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visualize Long-Bell one must think of the 14-story R. A. Long Building in Kansas City, must comprehend that on its 379,000 acres of land there were about 9,075,000,000 ft. of saleable timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Long Long Road | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Dartmouth hopes rest on Bill Morton and Bill McCall, who are both physically fir for the game. Whit Kimball, Bill Hoffman and Ward Donner will start, with Harold Mackey listed for the left end position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilkin is Only Green Player Definitely Out on Saturday | 11/6/1931 | See Source »

...became one of Hammond Lumber's first stockholders. Another original holder was Collis Potter Huntington. much of whose stock in the company went through his widow to the Huntington Library in San Marino. Closely held, Hammond Lumber reveals no earnings. Other than redwood, its big interest is Douglas fir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Forest Merger | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Christmas trees, for which 700,000 spruce and balsam fir were sold last year. Average price to the grower is 6? (in the cities the retailer gets 50? to $10). Last season a group of growers in Coos County marketed cooperatively, tagged their trees with special holiday labels, realized as much as 15? per tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Granite State | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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