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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...