Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really begin to tap the Northwest's great industrial potential. The new treaty opens the way to further development of that potential, promises...
...stopped growing." But he did not step eating. ''I was always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...
Recession. The recession issue proved highly overrated. Such long-hurting areas as West Virginia voted for Kennedy. But California's San Diego County, hard-hit by airplane-plant layoffs, remained Republican; so did layoff areas around Seattle and Oregon's slumping lumber region...
...five-man crews of subcontractors, who put up the shell on the home buyer's plot. Walter houses sell for $1,095 to $3,495 depending on size and style, and he keeps costs down by paying his builders a fixed fee per house, supplying everything except lumber for the construction from his own Dixie Building Supplies Inc. Last year Walter cleared an average of $1,000 profit on every house he built, on an average sales price of only $2,500. Even so, the home buyer saves 20% to 25% on his shell, claims Walter, compared...
...dining hall in Lowell House and the cellar in Massachusetts, or its equivalent, are still there. House drama groups will flourish in the future as they have in the past and the young man who feels happier working as his own carpenter can always find the lift and the lumber, but it is irrelevant to say so, for if our faith is grounded on do-it-yourself stagecraft, why did we build the Loeb? And neither, and for the same reason, is it an adequate answer to point out that the Loeb contains an experimental theater which can equal...