Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1820, loggers have turned 85% of the redwood forests into building materials. While enlightened lumber companies have long practiced selective logging and reforestation, some still buzz-saw heedlessly through stands of trees that may have been saplings at the time of Christ's birth. Where once the redwoods covered nearly 2,000,000 acres, today only 300,000 acres of virgin trees are left, including 50,000 acres sequestered in scattered state parks...
...dramatic non-sequitur. In it he consciously defied the vital premise of much of his earlier (and later) work; that truth must inevitably conquer falsehood. Ekdal, the central character, has lost both fortune and prestige in a grisly episode involving his father's illegal use of government lumber. The father, a broken man, is surviving on the charity of his guilty old friend Werle, who was also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built a new life on deception; Hjalmar has married, without knowing...
...trifle ragged in places. Which did nothing to discourage Director Ross. Stravinsky and the other stars won't be along, but soon Ross plans to pack up the Steinberg sets and a company of his regular troops to tour with Soldat throughout the state's mining towns, lumber camps and Indian reservations...
...papers for Eye Foundation, Inc., to which he eventually, gave $25,000. It took Dr. Callahan ten years to raise, by the same dollar-extraction technique, the rest of the $1,500,000 that he needed to get the hospital opened and operating. Along the way, he called on Lumber Millionaire Alfred S. Mitchell to ask for a donation. Mitchell was also having trouble with his eyes. An on-the-spot examination revealed cataracts, which Dr. Callahan later removed. Again, no bill. Mitchell wound up giving $25,000, and gifts from the foundation that administers the Mitchell estate have since...
...life. Nor did the Americans break up the vast estates of the principalia, the Filipino elite; peasants today still pay up to 30% of their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary-product economy; today, a major irritant between Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error. Still, when the date came for Philippine independence, the U.S. kept its word. On July 4, 1946, for better or worse...