Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco's Michael Moritz traveled to Oregon, where the lumber industry is hard hit, and discovered that fear pervaded not only those waiting in unemployment-office lines but even the clerks on the other side of the benefits counter. "There is a growing feeling that this can happen to anybody," he says. Chicago's Steven Holmes found one pervasive factor, a creeping uncertainty, which plagued his subjects and complicated his interviews. One unemployed executive told him: "I could handle this a lot better if I knew I would have a job in two months, or six months...
...about G.O.P. fortunes in the fall, it is not clear that Reagan will suffer much politically. Interviewing the jobless across the nation last week, TIME correspondents found relatively few who blamed the President for their plight. Rudy Barker, 62, was laid off in 1980 from his job at a lumber mill in Willamina, Ore., and he has not worked since then. "All this started before Reagan," he says. "It's been coming on for the last two or three Presidents." Says Samuel Ehrenhalt, Middle Atlantic regional commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "A lot of people are just...
...Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...
Ludwig threw money and manpower at problems thrown up by the jungle. But in many cases he made costly mistakes. In attempting to start his lumber and paper business, for example, he had to clear the land to plant new trees. Several Caterpillar "jungle crushers," giant bulldozers costing $250,000 each, were brought in to do the job, but the machines proved inappropriate because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil...
Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the walls of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...