Word: lumbering
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...mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
Fraternizing. Darkness came and the camp fires gleamed upon the field. When dawn broke, several divisions of Republican regulars were discovered in Lumber Wood. Brigadiers McNary and Steiwer of Oregon with other western Republican officers -Johnson of California among them -were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers...
...salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
...embittered his colleagues by announcing that the committee had decided to retain the 25% ad valorem duty on automobiles, but to strike out the countervailing clause of the present law; to eliminate the House bill rates on shingles, logs and lumber...