Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair has given a lift to business throughout the Northwest, whose lumber and fishing industries have been hurting...
...pregnant by Cobb, she moved into a house he rented for her. Cobb, known as "W. Edward Cobb," showed up in Roanoke only sporadically -he was thought to be an insurance claims adjuster and aircraft inspector whose work kept him traveling. In Morganton, where he was actually a successful lumber broker, he explained his frequent absences to his wife of 19 years and to his adopted son by pleading the pressures of business and politicking. He shuttled back and forth between both homes like an airborne Alec Guinness, and fathered two children by Linda...
North Carolina's William E. Cobb, 39, a slender, crew-cut lumber broker in Morganton, has been zealously building up his party since taking over the G.O.P. leadership in 1958. In 1960 Republican Robert L. Gavin managed to poll 46% of the vote for Governor. Cheered on by Cobb, nearly 1,000 delegates showed up at the annual state convention in March-nearly twice the expected number. Declared Cobb: "We are the nucleus of a political bombshell that can go off at any time...
...Robert Fulton and Samuel F. B. Morse had not the impulse to invent the steamboat and the telegraph taken priority with them. When he died in 1820, a few weeks after George III, the new King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait of the benign old master...
Soriano likes to say that business "must help the country," and he has played a major role in developing such Philippine resources as gold, iron, copper and lumber, as well as in the development of local industry to capitalize on those resources...