Word: firs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA (London). Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer's daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...
...Libby and his colleagues peeled the annual rings of wood from the trunk of an Arizona Douglas fir. The rings formed in 1909, one year after the explosion, showed a small but unmistakable excess of radioactivity. This indicates, say the authors guardedly, that about one-seventh of the energy in the Siberian explosion came from antimatter...
...South. The location of the three new plants reflects a significant trend. Plywood makers have begun to move into the South in force, ending a regional monopoly in softwood plywood that the Douglas-fir-growing Pacific Northwest has enjoyed for decades. In the past year, three new mills have opened in Texas and Arkansas to make plywood from the faster-growing Southern pine. Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's biggest producer of timber products, is building a plant at Plymouth, N.C. Vancouver Plywood is at work on two plants in Louisiana, and at least eleven other firms are planning...
...technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...