Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...
...Clyde Harris, a carpenter, set up a small lumber plant near Pendleton, Ore. The following year Harris was baptized a Seventh Day Adventist, after having been attracted by the "clean life" led by Adventists of his acquaintance. From then on, his church and his factory were his two big interests in life. A nonsmoker and a nondrinker, Harris taught Sabbath school and rigidly shut down his small plant on Saturdays (the Adventist Sabbath), despite the protests of customers who wanted their lumber deliveries. But he prospered nonetheless. Harris Pine Mills, Inc. became a $5,000,000 business, with three subplants...
...been touched off by a holiday firecracker. It broke out early on New Year's Day in a waterfront lumberyard in Valparaiso, Chile's chief port and second city (pop. 240,000). Merrymakers gathered in thousands to watch as the flames roared through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds...
...quality trade and billed as "the champagne of bottled beer." After his death, a succession of descendants ran the brewery. Young Fred's family owned enough stock for him to become a director in 1936, but he spent most of his time running his father's prosperous lumber and real-estate business. In 1947, when relatives had a hard time agreeing among themselves on brewery affairs, Fred took on the full-time job of running the brewery as president. The stockholders agreed to spend $25 million out of profits and their own pockets to expand and modernize...
Hungary. Deputy Premier Erno Gero told his Communist Central Committee last week that the country is doing just fine-except in coal, steel, power, transport, building, lumber and farming. There has been "a tremendous upsurge of our industry," but "here & there" are inconsistencies. Among them...