Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry has boosted the amount built into the average new home from 500 sq. ft. in 1950 to 2,700 sq. ft. last year. Even more remarkable, the cost of plywood has dropped 30% in a decade. Because recent floods in the Northwest did $50 million damage to the lumber and plywood industries, plywood prices have climbed $12 per thousand sq. ft. this month,.including a jump last week from $70 to $72. But the industry expects this rise to be shortlived as it cleans up the damage-and its move to the South speeds...
...small (pop. then about 5,000) town of Fayetteville in the Arkansas Ozarks, rode a horse three miles to school, milked the family's lone cow each day. His parents were wealthy. His stern, business-minded father Jay owned or held major interests in the town newspaper, a lumber company, a bank, a Coca-Cola bottling plant, a railroad, an ice company, and a hotel. Fulbright's mother led most of the town's civic activities, wrote a daily newspaper column on any topic that popped into her head...
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...
...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...