Word: firs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire ruined most of Thomas's bedroom furniture, including bedclothes, curtains, and all articles within his dressing bureau's drawers, immediately after the fir engines arrived, firemen, supplied with gas masks, climbed up to the room and threw down into the street smoldering desk objects, books, and sofas...
...Scrooge and Marley and Tiny Tim, but it didn't make him feel any better. Neither did the radio version of the Bible story about the star in the East and peace on earth, good will to men. Before, Christmas had always been a lovely mixture of candlelight and fir trees, beautiful organ music and soft snow falling, and dances where Vag saw all of his old friends, home for the vacation...
...advantage of the power saw is that it leaves no tall, unsightly stumps after logging. The lumberjacks, tough as they are, will not cut through the thick base of a Douglas fir when by notching the tree a few feet higher they can save a foot or two in diameter. But with the power saw (which weighs about 130 Ib.) it is easier to cut at the base than higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work...
...trees are growing in Iceland's valleys, fenced off from sheep and guarded by rangers on ponies. The seeds were sent unofficially, as from one forester (Jauch) to another (Bjarnason). They are irrelevant to U.S. defense: the marines will have to stay in Iceland 50 years before the fir or spruce look like respectable forests...
Price pyramiding in the lumber industry was outstanding. Late in August, the Army's cantonment orders hit the lumber markets (particularly southern pine & Douglas fir). In two months, the price of yellow pine timbers jumped 27% and stayed there-although the Army's ordering was finished in one week. By December, each week brought a new markup in a different type or grade of lumber...