Word: firs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat that comes before the summer monsoon, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was taking his first vacation in three years. Nehru was bone-tired; black circles ringed his eyes. In the cool. British-built hill station of Chakrata, Nehru slept under blankets, went for long walks on the fir-clad slopes, drew loud cheers from local admirers when he rode a pony onto the local parade ground and neatly guided it through a perfect figure eight...
Oregon's State Unemployment Compensation Commission reported that one-third of the Douglas fir raw-lumber mills are closed, and more lumbermen are idle than at any time in three years. The mills' inventories are more than double their orders, and retail yards are buying from hand to mouth. Lumbermen are banking on a third-quarter rise. They figure money will loosen by summer, free funds for building more houses...
...group; his dramatic play is very vivid"; at six, "outstanding for clear thinking and intelligent planning"; at eight, "a ready fund of first-hand knowledge." His mother taught him to read at five during a Connecticut winter away from school. He remembers his first book: The Little Fir Tree. By the time he was eight, his parents would find him with his light on at 11 p.m., reading anything that was handy. "Children should be allowed to read things they don't understand completely," says Mark. "We had thousands of books around the house. God knows what he read...
HENRY J. KAISER is returning to Pacific Northwest scene of his big World War II shipbuilding operation. For about $8,000,000, Kaiser Gypsum Co. has bought Fir-Tex Insulating Board, Inc., of Portland, Ore., plus 15,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, Washington...
Like their forebears', the violinmakers' first problem is finding the right wood. Some of it comes from the Italian Tyrol, some from the beams of 16th century buildings-fir for resonant belly and side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to 300 years. Testing for quality, the fathers twisted and tapped the wood as they worked it; their sons now listen with electronic ears and compute its acoustical properties. The instrument is put together with glue-also mixed for its resonant qualities-and at that point it is as mechanically perfect...