Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress has balked at the important but unpopular reforms on the Klein & Saks program. The Congress refused a 20% cut in government staff, and government expenses rose this year instead of dropping, as planned. It also balked at an antitrust bill to curb monopolistic, inflationary practices in the lumber, paper, cement and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, the government itself hesitated to tighten collections of income taxes, which are high in theory but evaded in practice. And the armed services continued to waste money; e.g., the Navy still keeps in commission the Almirante Latorre, probably the only relic still afloat from...
...Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...
...into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed. To the derisive question of the white man, "Where are your lands now?", his figure...
...Radcliffe girl packs her last trunk and wonders if the way her section man said good-bye means that he'll call her up that evening. And an alumnus walks into the Yard, watches the workmen moving lumber, the Yardling carrying his bag on his shoulder, the girl sitting on the steps of the library, and he feels detached from Harvard, and wonders if everything has changed, or nothing...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...