Word: hardwoods
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...string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better get out of the way. Nantucket fishermen still talk about the time a broadbill rammed the whaling ship Fortune, ran its bill right through the hull's copper sheathing, a 3-in.-thick hardwood plank...
...Munsons of the world when he's told to climb no higher than 12 ft. off the ground? So Mr. Munson fell out of a tree house as a child, and cut his arm. May he do so again-but this time from a 5-in.-diameter hardwood branch! And may he land-rump first -on a 16-penny nail...
...more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must be at least 42 in. high and floor boards at least 1 in. thick; the houses must be framed by two-by-fours and attached, with 16-penny nails, to branches no less than 5 in. in diameter for hardwood trees or 7 in. for softwood. So far, the inspector has served violation notices on eight families...
...design to such far-out spectaculars as last spring's "Feelies Show." In the latter, students were first plunged into a coal-black room, forced to grope their way along a handrail that turned from wood to fur to aluminum to sandpaper, while the floor underfoot changed from hardwood to rubbery sponge, in order, as Hayes puts it, to make them "aware" that they are "all nerves...
After Edward M. Gilbert's daring 1958 takeover of the E.L. Bruce Co., a leading manufacturer of hardwood products, Wall Street figured it would be hearing a lot more from the 34-year-old financial whizbang. What it heard was not exactly what had been expected. One day in 1962 Gilbert in formed Bruce directors that he had used $1,953,000 in company funds in a futile effort to cover heavy stock losses. Then he boarded a plane for Brazil. Returning voluntarily four months later, Gilbert has since lived a life that belies his onetime jet-set status...