Word: lumber
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...counter the Common Market's "Inner Six," Finland was eager to join and make it eight. President Kekkonen, wary of riling the Russians, at first refused to broach the subject to Moscow. Only when the Outer Seven put through the first mutual 20% tariff reductions and Finnish lumber and paper exporters began to lose sales to Swedish and Norwegian competition did Kekkonen speak up. Khrushchev came to Kekkonen's 60th birthday celebration last September, shared a private sauna with the Finnish President, emerged to give his grudging consent for Finland to become a qualified member of EFTA...
...dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink...
...traded in the family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...
...bases. Last spring, when some of his subcontractors began to complain about money owed them. Hayes called an abrupt halt to all the work on projects yet uncompleted (TIME, June 6). On the sites, virtually nothing has happened since. Not only are there unfinished houses, but huge piles of lumber and other building materials are being ruined by the winter weather...
...Southern members of the Rules Committee, including Howard Smith, rebelled against the New Deal because of Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court and his proposal to set a 40?-an-hour minimum wage (strenuously opposed by owners of Southern textile and lumber mills). From 1937 on, all during Sam Rayburn's years as Speaker, the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats successfully dominated the Rules Committee...