Word: firs
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Southern pine is a sticky, spindly tree that grows weedlike in every abandoned field, reproduces a stand of timber (unlike the North's mighty, slow-growing spruce and fir) in 15 or 20 years. It has long been used for kraft (boxes and wrapping) paper...
...understanding that Christmas Trees are almost invariably either spruce or fir. Pine trees, having needles from two to five inches in length and hanging in bunches, present a rather straggly appearance and are rarely used for the purpose mentioned. Possibly the President cultivates an unusual species of pine...
...should F. D. R. pine? Why not spruce fir Christmas...
...thin wood sheets like wrapping paper from a roll. When the sheets are cut to size, the sandwiches are made in presses which deliver squeezes up to 200 Ib. per sq. in. The San Francisco World's Fair, which accounted for 10,000,000 sq. ft. of fir plywood, used plywood 29 layers thick for parts of its Colonnade of States...
...main lines of defense against tanks. Above the narrow roads other huge boulders had been poised, so that the mere cutting of a cord sent them hurtling into the road. Concrete pillboxes, sunk into the earth and covered with sod, guarded all main avenues of passage. In the thick fir forests hid the Finns themselves, trained since childhood to use their knives as cleverly as an Alabama Negro uses his razor, and since joining the Army to aim their machine guns as accurately as a sharpshooter aims his rifle. Finally, there was the snowstorm...