Word: hardwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the blast came. The props in my place were twisted and blown down. We ran out into the slope and saw several men sprawled around . . . [and] helped them to the foot of the shaft. . . . Boulders as big as kitchen tables had been blown around. . . . Mine cars made of hardwood were blown into splinters. Tracks were twisted. . . . Seven...
...Houses. Lumber production for September was three billion board feet, 14% less than in August. A decline in production of other much-needed housing materials-brick & tile, plumbing fixtures, gypsum board-was partially offset by an increase in production of hardwood flooring, cement, clay sewer pipe, cast-iron soil pipe, and asphalt roofing...
...from the Arctic and out onto the great plains, and warned wheatgrowers to hurry with the last of the harvesting. Along the country roads of Ontario and Quebec, the white breath of horses pulling farm wagons marked the imminence of winter as much as the opulent piles of stacked hardwood in the sheds...
...Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...
...period chair was safe during leapfrog sessions. A dappled pony clumped through the children's bedrooms, and was forever being backed in & out of the White House elevator by one or all of Teddy's four sons and two daughters. The youngsters roller skated on the shiny hardwood floors, burrowed through attics and ceilings, wobbled all over the White House on stilts. This was the era of the Strenuous Life, and the Roosevelt children lived...