Word: lumber
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...bottleneck, the combine has set up an advance staging area at Poro Point on Luzon in the Philippines, is building three additional depots in Viet Nam. Except for such basics as rock, sand and gravel, most of the construction material must be shipped from the U.S. Though native lumber is abundantly available, for example, it is no longer used. Reason: heavy Viet Cong taxation on growers and suppliers has driven up the price for 1,000 board feet from $62 to $300 since...
...rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports (mainly beef, lumber and cotton) earned $50 million, 23% more than 1963, and this year may rise another 10%. Some $27 million in Alianza aid has gone into agricultural, educational and communications projects, helped push 1,200 miles of paved roads into the rich but unexploited interior. Though the country...
They flee across the 90-mile Straits of Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats...
...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...
Self-Made Mexican. Son of an iron and lumber magnate, Szeryng was raised in the Warsaw suburb of Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Chopin. A child prodigy, he was packed off to Berlin at seven to study violin with the renowned teacher Carl Flesch, five years later entered the Sorbonne. The day after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Szeryng volunteered for the Polish Army. Fluent in seven languages, he was assigned to the Polish government-in-exile in Great Britain as a translator. In 1942, accompanying Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski to Latin America in search of a home...