Word: lumberingly
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...spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks him in the thick of battle. "Are you man or mouse?" Hope turns to the nearest mouse...
...cleared two acres of jack pine and brush, near Grays Harbor, Washington lumber port, reinvested his bulbs. By 1943 he had 10,000, will harvest 50,000 this year. He will sell 10,000 to nurserymen at from 20? to $1 each (eight different grades) and replant...
...every security sales manager wanted a whack at the bonds. Choice rail-bond merchandise has been scarce in the war years. Further, the ore, wheat and lumber-carrying Great Northern has come a long way financially since the late '305. Then analysts seriously questioned its ability to pay a $100 million debt...
Like many another farmer in western Washington's Satsop Valley, Albert Kuhlne pastured his cattle along a grass-grown waste of charred logs and blackberry thickets-the scorched remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...
...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...