Word: forested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Tillamook forest fire in northwestern Oregon licked up 10,500,000,000 feet of standing timber, enough to supply Portland's sawmills for 20 years. Despite that loss Oregon is still the leading lumber State, still has the nation's largest remaining stands of commercial timber. Last week the No. 1 lumber State, parched by weeks of hot weather, was on fire again in the worst blaze since Tillamook. At Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned...
There are only two things to do when a forest fire gets out of hand: run for your life or dig in. In the Dutch Canyon region, Brothers George, Cliff and Art Kittleson and an employe called Smoky saved their lives by scooping a deep hole, burying themselves all but their faces, lying there for seven hours while the holocaust passed over...
Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled...
...bought considerable sugar from Germany in the pre-War period. To supply these markets, Cuban production jumped from 10% of the annual world supply to 25%. Havana blossomed out as a boom city, its real-estate prices spiraling dizzily. All through eastern Cuba woodcutters cleared thousands of acres of forest. Negroes from Haiti and coolies from China planted sugar cane between blackened tree stumps. To move the sugar crop, American banks opened subsidiaries in Havana, with the Chase National Bank and the National City Bank of New York taking the lead...
...village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the last minute John Koevecs again opened his eyes, sat up, stopped the show...