Word: lumberingly
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...district school for underprivileged and "difficult" children in the Saxon town of Obernkirchen (pop. 6,400). When the school building was commandeered for a hospital in 1946, she decided to organize a singing group ("Music has a beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas, who might have made a crackerjack press-agent if he had tried, called the Obernkirchen girls "angels in pigtails...
Numismatist. In McKeesport, Pa., searched by the cops who nabbed him as he fled from the premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an 1,800-lb. elephant to give her "something different" for her birthday, Mrs. Orla Drum proudly said that it was just what she wanted, planned to put it with the other animals in the zoo she keeps on her farm...
...General Sherman sequoia, reputed to be "the oldest living thing on earth" (some 3,500 years) and largest of all trees, is 272 ft. tall and 101 ft. in circumference, weighs 2,150 tons (155 tons for the foliage alone) and contains 600,000 board feet of lumber-enough to build a whole town...
...Zellerbach. which hopes that research done in its new lab will turn up more Cinderellas in the forest, is not the only company trying to find new products from the more than 50% of a tree now wasted. Almost every month new products come out of the laboratories of lumber and paper companies. Among them...
...lumber-jacketed Wobbly...