Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wind. It was an ill wind, in fact a hurricane, which blew Ottinger into the plywood business. Part of his father's $100,000 had been used to buy a big grove of gum trees near Corbin, La., in an experiment to dye living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert...
...pants. "We won't be able to decide until after the Bear Dance," he said. The audience shouted approvingly, "Hou! Hou!" Said another old man: "The land is worth more . . ." Then, after a pause, "Of course, I have some beer in my belly." The Indians retired to a grove of cottonwood trees to powwow. It was not until sundown, three days later, that the rest of the tribesmen outvoted...
...small U.S. farm town-big enough for a post office or a bank branch but too small for a movie house or a department store-is dying. All over the U.S., judging by new census figures last week, little towns with names like What Cheer, St. Elmo, and Honey Grove are slowly withering...
...storm gathered and brooded over the flat Florida swamplands, Convict Angelo Massina, 30, sat tensely in the prison truck, making his plans. When the truck stopped for a traffic light outside Winter Haven, Massina jumped down and lit out across a field toward an orange grove...
...Anahist Co. (Anahist); Bristol-Myers Co. (Resistab); Whitehall Pharmacal Co. (Krip-tin); Union Pharmaceutical Co. (Inhiston); Grove Laboratories (Antamine...