Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LABOR PEACE for the often-struck Northwest lumber industry seems assured until June 1957. Lumbermen announced an 18-month agreement with 80,000 of some 100,000 workers, including more than 30,000 members of the International Woodworkers of America. Industry pattern calls for an approximate 4¼% wage increase (about 9? per hour) that will add more than $20 million to the industry's annual costs...
...sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal of sports like golf, tennis and skeetshooting is that you can mark down your score on a card and have something to show for your time. But if you feel that way, you don't know too much about relaxation...
...interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often more valuable that the minerals beneath, so a mining company may sell lumber at great prices and never dig a shaft...
...even less excusable that land rights on Federal mining claims should be granted without restrictions. Lumber companies which operate on Federal lands must receive a license, and they are closely supervised by the U.S. Forest Service, which compels them to harvest their timber in accordance with sound conservation theory. Yet "mining companies", which ordinarily operate for such a short period of time that they have no natural stake in conservation, usually mine the timber on their claim without control, making no effort to restore the forest...
...Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...