Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replacing the benches with modern study chairs, the University was planning to scrap the planks for lumber, but the Alumni Association intervened with its plan to turn the benches out to pasture. All contributions for the benches will be used for the refurbishing of Wadsworth House which is being remodeled into an Alumni Center...
...years that followed, Shawinigan Falls expanded to became a bustling lumber town, and Mayor Thibeaudeau came to realize that he had less of a novelty and more of a traffic menace on his hands. It became clear that the moose was quite without fear and that sooner or later it would plough into some local citizen or other minor obstacle which chanced to be in its way. It was also quite clear that full grown moose would suffer little or no damage from such a collision, but that the other party more than likely would be jolted right into...
...Come On, Boys." The Red push started at Kemi, a lumber town 50 miles from the Arctic Circle. Kemi's lumberjacks had been on strike for higher wages all summer; last week, Finland's Social Democratic government ordered the men back to work, sent police to Kemi to help enforce order. To the Communist bosses, that situation seemed ready-made for their purposes. To launch their offensive with a bang, the Red bosses decided to start a riot at Kemi...
...reporters took their readers on a guided tour of 46 flophouses, where 12,413 bums slept in lousy cubicles for 50? or 60? a night. They watched hard-faced jackrollers stripping the pockets and stealing the shoes from sodden bums, saw prostitutes plying their trade amid the lumber piles and back alleys, found that "a surprisingly large number [of derelicts] at one time were trusted employees, executives or professional...
...gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...