Word: hemlock
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...Democratic President was prevailed on, during the World War, to cut the original Mt. Olympus monument area almost in half so as to stimulate private prospecting for manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries...
...last opportunity to express our will as a class. We the undersigned are tired of being asked to vote time after time since our Freshman Union Committee days for the same conglomeration of quasi-representative names. Now as Seniors we are asked to swallow the final cup of hemlock, rendering us dead to our rights and privileges, the great mass of us merely so many votes to be mechanically considered by that mastermind, the nominating committee, the answer to the dreams of a power-crazed Stalin...
...From a hemlock tree...
...against imaginary dangers, merely because they want to be champions. The product of this pernicious alignment is an unnatural and unhealthy resentment among the masses against the intellectuals, who are supposed to be dabbling with explosive ideas. It is just such a situation that in ancient times gave the hemlock juice to Socrates, and, in our own day and state, blasted the senatorial hopes of Henry Cabot Lodge...
...year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced: electric cooking stoves, lacrosse sticks, swordfish (if not frozen), eels...