Word: lumbering
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...Radcliffe girl packs her last trunk and wonders if the way her section man said good-bye means that he'll call her up that evening. And an alumnus walks into the Yard, watches the workmen moving lumber, the Yardling carrying his bag on his shoulder, the girl sitting on the steps of the library, and he feels detached from Harvard, and wonders if everything has changed, or nothing...
Sculptor Chaim Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
...homebuilding, hit by the big drop in building for veterans, declined again in March to the lowest rate in eight years. The decline was reflected in the appliance industry, where sales of home laundry equipment in the first quarter were down 18% from last year, and in lumber and other industries tied in with housing. Steelmakers also were still trimming production: in Buffalo, Republic Steel Corp. was operating only five of its nine steelmaking furnaces...
THREE-WAY MERGER will put Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., biggest U.S. lumber producer (but second to diversified Crown-Zellerbach in overall business) into the finished-container field for first time. In face of sagging U.S. lumber sales, Weyerhaeuser will absorb Chicago's Eddy Paper Corp. and New Jersey's Kieckhefer Container Co. in $200 million stock swap, emerge as fully integrated lumber-pulp-container producer, with annual earnings of about $65 million...