Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the depression, a millionaire walked into the Minneapolis office of a floundering outdoor-sports magazine, and shyly presented a manuscript he had written. The editor sized up the author and the story and bought it for $10. He got a great bargain: before grateful Lumberman M. J. Bell Sr. was through, he had invested more than $50,000 to keep Sports Afield afloat...
Tulsa had never known a politician like Roy Lundy. Salty, 70-year-old Mr. Lundy, a lumberman, got into politics by accident. Two months ago, he went to a police station to bail out one of his truck drivers who had been arrested for reckless driving. The police refused to accept his check for $100. This made Lundy so mad at the city administration that he resolved then & there to run for mayor...
...bearish tactics grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody's funnybone. Scenes of bears winding through a rough and tumble square dance to the yells of a hillbilly caller, and slapping their sweethearts against a background of valentines and fir trees, are all bright-eyed Disney...
...feet, less than prewar's normal stock, but far above recent stocks. From Logansport, La. to Broken Bow, Okla. the lumber was piling up. Lumbermen said they were "curing it." But up till a few months ago, many of the yards had shipped it green. Said one Texas lumberman after flying over the area: "It looked like there were acres of lumber around some of those mills...
...concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...