Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Spy. Sharp-eyed aerial cameras, such as those that enabled the U-2 to chart thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union, have also moved into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal...
Born from the merger of three sleepy sawmill companies, Boise Cascade is now a diversified producer of paper, lumber and building materials, with mills, factories and retail stores in eight Western states. Its sales ($175 million in 1962) will rise above $200 million this year, despite intense competition, erratic prices and the overcapacity of the U.S. lumber industry. Last week, having completed negotiations, it was hoping for the Federal Trade Commission's approval to buy Crown Zellerbach's St. Helena Pulp & Paper Co. in Oregon. It is also looking for new properties in the South, has taken over...
...Local Lumber. Quietly, carefully, Wilkinson rebuilt the team-with local lumber. Six of this year's starting eleven are Oklahomans, and there are only twelve Texans on the 63-man varsity squad. The team is big: Tackle Ralph Neely weighs in at 246 Ibs. It is fast: Halfback Joe Don Looney, a bull-necked 225-pounder, runs the 100 in 9.7 sec. It is brutal, boisterous-and tricky as a sidewinder. The Sooners sometimes run plays without a huddle, trying to catch their opponents out of position...
...proceed on its own. Hence Gimpex. Organized 21 months ago, Gimpex is run by lagan's own People's Progressive Party and operates as an extension of the government. Last month Gimpex moved into potatoes, onions and garlic with imports from Poland and Czechoslovakia; it is filling lumber orders for East Germany and Russia. To Cuba it ships railroad ties and rice; in return, Castro sends cement, printing machinery and foodstuffs...
Married. Kay Sutton Topping, 48, onetime Hollywood starlet from New Jersey, ex-wife of New York Yankees Co-Owner Dan Topping, popular Washington socialite; and Frederick Moulton Alger Jr., 56, widower heir to 19th century Michigan lumber millions, Eisenhower's Ambassador to Belgium from 1953 to 1956; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich...