Word: lumbered
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...money's worth. Apparently it did because since then Alaska has ex ported more than $1,250,000,000 in fish, furs, gold and other metals. And Alaska's 70,000 inhabitants (half of them Indians) have not yet scratched its natural resources, which include water power, lumber, oil, iron, zinc, copper, chromite, antimony, nickel, platinum, tungsten. But Johnson also got his money's worth in natural defense, for today Alaska is one of the U. S.'s two most important outposts against invasion from the Pacific (the other: Hawaii). Today Army and Navy are rushing...
...road made last year (M. & O, lost $440,924) to a respect able figure by getting a longer haul on a larger portion of the two lines' traffic. Al ready benefiting from the movement of industries to the South, he hopes to add more manufactured goods to the lumber, petroleum, bananas, etc. which are , the standbys of his new road. Now 60, not old as railroad presidents go, he has been a railroad president longer than any other U. S. railroader except Baltimore & Ohio's venerable ''Uncle Dan" Willard. He is also a pioneer...
Youngson received a prize of $50 for his film entitled "Smoke Dreams," adjudged the best amateur 16 millimeter film submitted. Bruce L. Greiner, of the Law School, was runner-up with a four-reel color film dealing with a lumber camp...
...over 5,000,000 saws and blades a year, does some 75% of the U. S. handsaw business. Its saws & blades vary from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about...
Into the Detroit smithy of Wagon-maker August Charles Fruehauf (rhymes with blew-off) one day in 1915 walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...