Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a vaulting horse had been built from odds & ends of lumber, Peter and John hid inside it, while other prisoners carried it outdoors and set it up in front of a guard box. Almost every afternoon for the next four months the P.O.W.s vaulted tirelessly while Peter and John took turns burrowing away with a trowel at their ever-lengthening tunnel. The loose sand was packed into bags made from trouser legs. The bags were hung inside the wooden horse while the men were digging; later the sand was scattered in latrines, tomato patches, or under the prisoners...
...hoping for another $100 million from the Export-Import Bank. All of this, however, fell short of the $200 million which was the minimum Indonesian estimate of the help they would need the first year. To attract the investment of private capital, Indonesia is counting on its vast untapped lumber resources in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo...