Word: lumber
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Canadian-born, the daughter of a machinist, Bonnie did her apprenticeship in U.S. coffeehouses and Canadian lumber camps...
...foray as a political candidate. In 1934, he ran for alderman in Ann Arbor on the Socialist ticket-and was routed. "I took socialism seriously for a couple of years during the bottom of the Depression," says Staebler, who is a millionaire on the strength of family interests in lumber and coal and his own ventures into real estate. "I have since discovered it was a mistake...
...wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born in 1933. Son of a concert singer and a geologist father. Zhenya spent his early childhood in the old quarter of Moscow. There he lived with his gifted, handsome mother Zinaida and her father, a grizzled artilleryman who was a lieutenant...
Forest fires destroy millions of dollars' worth of lumber each year. But in some areas fires run second to the boring, chomping insect hordes that eat their way through the forest, leaving wide patches in ruin. Last week a Russian scientist reported considerable success in a kind of bacteriological warfare against a pesky caterpillar that attacks Siberia's vast evergreen forests...
...Specialty. Son of a bank cashier, Harold Lee Giesler (pronounced Geese-ler) was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa. He was about to go to the University of Michigan when he developed eye trouble and went instead to Los Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...