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Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining...
Casbah Fellow. A native Georgian, Scholar Currie broke all academic records at Mercer University Law School ('35), was the OPA lawyer who led the crackdown on black-market lumber chiselers during World War II. He has taught at the universities of Georgia, Chicago, California and Pittsburgh, where he was law dean in 1952. He has edited such journals as Law and Contemporary Problems, been a fellow at California's famed Casbah (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). While delighting law professors with doggerel mockeries of celebrated lawsuits, Currie has built his serious reputation on profound studies...
...cloth to be used in products as diverse as automobile seats and jute suits. Nearby, Adamjee has just opened a new factory that will ensure even greater use of Pakistan's jute crop by producing particle board out of jute stems, providing a low-cost wood substitute for lumber-poor Pakistan. He is also almost single-handedly diversifying Pakistan's industry, using jute profits to build a $2.1 million cotton mill, a $6.3 million sugar refinery, a tea company and a vegetable-oil plant in other locations...
...should have a boot with inner boot which makes it more comfortable and gives you more support. However, today there are the so called "buckle boots" which do not really require an inner boot, since you can close them so tightly without being a lumber jack...
...years, a resolute Tennessean named Welby Lee has searched for the hit-run driver who hurtled out of the gloom on a rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...