Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dynamics of the district than I'd ever known." He learned the need for weeding and care of the timberlands: acres and acres of his domain were useless, some trees as old as 800 years, others choked to death. McCullough had to absorb the hard facts of the lumber industry-how to figure permissible profits (12%), write newspaper ads, conduct bidding and police logging. He had to plan the cultivation of crops that might take 120 years to harvest. And he was profoundly impressed by what he learned: "Now that we're actually land managers...
...last reel of the film is given to a fine piece of natural comedy. The moviemakers make pets of two giant groupers who lumber about the sea floor after them with the doggy devotion of submarine St. Bernards, begging with śoulful looks for a handout. The color throughout is poetic and covers an amazing range. It is a pity that the commentary is bad Swinburne, and the musical score banal, like woozy echoes of Tchaikovsky in a conch...
...caption for one of your pictures indicates that the area is part of the J. Neils tree farm in Montana and has been selectively cut. This particular area is owned by the state of Montana and was cut by J. Neils Lumber Co. under provisions of the state contract requiring removal of trees to certain diameter limits. Our silvicultural program for company lands does not permit cutting the timber so heavily. If the area had been cut as indicated in your picture, removing the dead, overaged and damaged trees only, the stand remaining would have been at least five times...
GEORGE NEILS Logging Department Manager J. Neils Lumber Co. Libby, Mont...
Wealthy old General Vien, who runs Le Grand Monde (as well as various hotels, lumber mills and fisheries) docilely offered several thousand of his uniformed bully boys as recruits for the Vietnamese National Army; General Vien himself retired to the quiet family life he leads with his two wives, twelve children, screeching monkeys, a leopard, a tiger and some pet crocodiles. Wife No. 1 got in step with the new morality by starting a campaign against striptease, immoral books and dirty movies...