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Word: lumbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German immigrant who made a tidy fortune in lumber, Paepcke was the product of good Chicago private schools and more than the normal dose of private tutoring. He earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Yale, in 1926 struck out for himself in business. By 1945, he had built up the Container Corp. of America into one of the world's most imaginative packaging concerns. But that year he also took a fateful vacation in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Baron | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Many co-ops have spread far afield of agriculture, own oil wells, tankers, insurance companies, banks, paper mills, lumber yards, phone companies, hospitals and even mortuaries. The Consumers Cooperative Association, a farm organization headquartered at Kansas City, owns three oil refineries, 1,000 or so oil wells, 935 miles of pipelines, three fertilizer plants, two feed mills, a steel-fabricating plant, a paint and grease factory and a packinghouse, counts assets of $118 million. Grossing $154 million last year, Consumers had a net of $10.3 million. It paid only $1,237,000 in taxes, less than one-fourth the federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CO-OP TAX DODGE | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas as the U.S.'s standard ICBM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home of Minuteman | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...TRADE DEAL with Italy is expected to bring $60 million trade increase between two nations in 1960. New $200 million trade agreement calls for Italy to import such raw materials as lumber, coal, petroleum products and basic chemicals. Russia will import machinery, steel products and artificial fibers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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