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Aspirin Parties. Kellerman, an ex-G.I. started his assignment by getting a short haircut, putting away his horn-rimmed glasses, and dressing in a tattered lumber-jacket and an old pair of Army pants. Late one night he was driven to Riverhead (pop. 4,892), the county seat 60 miles away from the paper's office, where he would not be recognized, and dropped off near a bar. Kellerman hung around the bar, making an obvious show of casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around...
Royal Blue was not alone. A few days after it shut down, the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co., across the mountains in Stearns, Ky., told its 400 miners to start finding jobs elsewhere. The company had not signed with Lewis. Said a Stearns official, who estimated that the new contract would have cost his company $18,000 a month more to run the mine, which was already running in the red: "We just can't stand it. It's suicide...
Clues. In Joplin, Mo., Police Radio Dispatcher Jim Miller broadcast the description of a stolen vehicle, wasn't surprised when police quickly found it: a bright red truck with a load of lumber topped by three bathtubs...
Economically the Metasequoia's value is still undetermined. The Chinese use it for construction purposes: Merrill thinks it may take the place of the white pine as a timber crop in countries where light lumber is scarce--especially in England and New Zealand and perhaps southeastern Australia. South Africa and certain parts of South America...
...Falls mill is largely the achievement of Robert Filberg, vice president of the Canadian Western Lumber Co. Throughout his 45 years in the British Columbia timber trade, Filberg always was bothered by the disheartening waste involved in harvesting pulpwood. In 1940, he decided to do something about it. Working with the province's forestry department, he experimented with new methods of logging waste wood and new-type machines to mill it. When the process was perfected, Filberg's company closed a deal with the U.S.-owned Crown Zellerbach Corp. to build the Elk Falls mill. Its success...