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...highway's long-distance aspects, as a link in inter-American unity, see it in its local character, as an immediately useful road. The road ends age-old isolation, makes it possible to get bananas to market, to exchange them for huaraches and cooking pots, to trade Honduran lumber for Salvadoran sugar and corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Panama by 1950 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...week's end, Scott and his wife were forced to move in with his staunchest supporter, Lumber Dealer Harold ("Tiny" ) Rice. Church trustees prepared a plea to the bishop to reconsider. Said Preacher Scott: "I shall not be moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: The Preacher & Rose City | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...those who has worried over this waste is the Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Timber Co., which owns 5% (about two million acres) of the timberland in Oregon and Washington. The world's biggest lumber firm, it devised a simple way to use sawdust, by pressing it into fireplace logs (Prestologs) at its Longview (Wash.) plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...under cross-examination last week May admitted that his personal bank account had gotten badly mixed up with Cumberland Lumber Co. funds. Confessed Andy: "I checked out money in the most convenient way on whichever account was available." Somehow he had forgotten to account for $15,000 worth of lumber Cumberland had sold on the open market. He admitted that he was in the habit of depositing large wads of cash in two strong-boxes he kept handy in Washington and at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Handy Andy | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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