Word: firs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lumber companies have been given most of the blame for this drastic, and usually wasteful leveling of the nation's tall timber. Last week the biggest lumber company in the U.S. took another big step to build the forests up again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled a plaque to mark 203,000 acres of second-growth timber set aside as a "tree farm." On this tract, as on the other 1,979,568 acres of Weyerhaeuser...
...year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
...occasional faults: casual superciliousness, high-brow reserve, lack of warmth. But it also illustrates most of his more important virtues: a literary curiosity that ranges from horror stories and a life of John Barrymore to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the precious hot-house blooms of Ronald Fir-bank (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), an oldfashioned, discursive style, an artful way of saying exactly what a writer is up to while explaining at the same time how he got that way. Sometimes, as in writing about fifth-rate Poet Angelica Balabanoff, Wilson's ivory-tower reflections lead...
Furthermore, he said, there was no danger of any wartime shortage of plywood, thanks to the enormous expansion of plywood production. The industry is currently producing fir plywood at the rate of 2,800,000,000 board feet a year, double the production rate established in World...
Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners, it was tapping an exhaustible commodity-neither industry could expand beyond certain rigid limits without inviting disaster...