Word: firs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cosmopolis, Wash., which became a ghost town in the mid-'20's when loggers cut the last stand of nearby virgin fir, was coming back to life last week. Roaring through the long-silent streets, construction gangs completed the main building of a $20 million plant in which Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. will next year turn second-growth timber into pulp products...
...dropped (down to 256 bd. ft. in 1955 from 504 in 1904) and timberland prices soared (up as much as 1,700% in 18 years). Many companies have also diversified to make full use of their tim ber reserves, e.g., western alder, long bypassed when redwood and Douglas fir forests were logged solely for lumber, is now widely cut for wood pulp...
...half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...
...Plastinail, a flooring compound that Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. processes out of Douglas fir bark, flows like cement, then hardens, can be nailed like wood...
...indeed a sad commentary on the future of federal buildings if their design is to be dictated by the Washington lobbies of building-materials trades. Imagine the final structure-a composite of Indiana limestone, California redwood, Vermont marble, Montana copper, Oregon Douglas fir and Rhode Island brick. Add one flight of New Hampshire granite steps so that the whole may be recognized as "monumental...