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Stiffener. A new boxmaking and panel material that combines the stiffness and strength of wood with the smoothness and lightweight of fiber cartons was brought out by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Called "Ply-Veneer," it is made of Douglas fir veneer sandwiched between thin layers of Kraft container board. Price of paneling: about...
...Cascade and Olympic ranges run off sharp, cold and glistening along the horizon. Looking at them, Seattle likes to reflect that the frontier still exists: the mountains are still as pitiless-and as alluring-as they were when Henry Yesler's little sawmill was first cutting Douglas fir logs and Indian war canoes still coursed Puget Sound's lonely arms of green tidewater...
...blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...
Mookie, out of sight, worked efficiently. Suddenly, a rabbit bounded out of a nearby hole and fled across the heather in a series of bobtailed bounces, heading straight for a patch of scrub fir trees. Diana spotted the quarry almost instantly. When the rabbit was about 75 yards away, Falconer Wolfgang Stehle suddenly called "Habicht frei" (Hawk free) and released the thong which bound straining Diana to his. wrist. Wings pounding for quick altitude, Diana flashed after the rabbit. Closing fast, she wheeled into a vertical bank between two fir trees and plummeted downward for the strike...
Then the Jagermeister solemnly cut a fir twig, placed it in the crease of his green hat, bowed to Stehle and pronounced "Falconer, Heil." Stehle, in turn, bowed, accepted the twig and placed it under the band of his own hat. In two days of competition, with 18 stylish kills, the deadly hunting trio of Stehle, Diana and Mookie successfully defended the title in the international competition sponsored by the Order of German Falconers...