Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Chemical Society convened in Detroit last week, Professor Ernst Berl of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute for Technology made an astonishing announcement. He said he had made, experimentally but successfully, oil, coal, coke and asphalt from grass, leaves, seaweed, sawdust, scrap lumber, corn, cornstalks, cotton...
...late George ("Honest Jarge") Lansbury, who died last May at 81, was known and loved in every town of Britain. Son of a railway worker, he earned a modest fortune in the lumber business, retired, went into the labor movement, became the Labor Party's Parliamentary Leader. He was a passionate lover of peace-so single-minded that when his Party favored sanctions against Italy, he resigned and went back to the slums, where even in his late 703 he still lived...
Canadian newspapers demanded to know whether men working on new camp buildings had helped the prisoners by furnishing tools, lumber for the tunnel and parts for the radio, how the prisoners had disposed of the 30 cubic yards of earth taken from the tunnel. Some people wondered why the whole troop of prisoners had not crawled out through the tunnel. And for three days Canadians wondered where Lieut. Koche...
Nearly everybody in northern Minnesota knows rawboned, six-foot Frank Broker. For more than 25 years he was a logger, one of the best in that logging country. Now he is a jobber, driving through the timberlands in his Chevrolet to buy up small lots of lumber and sell them to the mills. With his good sense, his jet-black Indian hair and his love of talk, he is also a familiar figure in the lobby of the Endion Hotel at Cass Lake, where red and white men of affairs assemble regularly to settle matters of moment. As a past...
...some 500 U. S. short lines (leftovers of the railroad consolidation era), none has shown a tougher and more independent spirit than A. & R. It was born 48 years ago when a burly Scot named John Blue laid the rails to get his lumber, turpentine and rosin to town. Today it originates 35% of its freight traffic, gets the rest through strategic connections with the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern and Cape Fear roads. Some 20% of its freight revenue comes from petroleum; the rest is fertilizer, coal, farm produce, and material for Fort Bragg (20% of non-originated...