Word: firs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posing a serious hazard of debilitation among the crew and a downright perilous situation in the magazines. Sailors slept face to foot in cramped, fetid racks of three, and life was a reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor, the LSMR, with a new concept of life afloat...
Driving through birch woods, through forests of fir, bridging huge rivers, crossing the deep, black-soil plains of the Ukraine, filtrating through the great marshlands, fighting, always fighting, in winter blizzard or in blistering summer heat, the Red army recaptured half a million square miles of territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close...
...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...
...much in an organized way until 1941, when dwindling U.S. lumber reserves, new wood-using industries, and the increased needs of World War II gave the idea a boost. For a starter, Weyerhaeuser planted the first 120,000 acres of logged-over ground near Montesano, Wash, with Douglas fir seedlings, and sat back to watch them grow to logging size in 80 to 100 years...
...help nature work for man, loggers now act as regulators of the natural reseeding process. For example, in cutting over an area of Douglas fir, they fell trees in blocks about half a mile square, leaving thick stands of mature trees as natural nurseries to sow their airborne seeds over the cut areas. At five years the seedlings are Christmas-tree size and at 20 about the height of a two-story house, and growing about 300 to the acre. When the crop is 30 years old, the lumberman's harvest begins. With power saws the lumbermen thin...