Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Huff out of retirement. A four-time All-Pro middle linebacker, Huff came back simply because "Lombardi is my kind of guy." Sam proved as rugged and mobile as ever. In the first game against Philadelphia, he came from nowhere to pick off a Norm Snead pass and lumber 18 yds. for a touchdown...
...that he cannot hold a job during the school year and keep up his studies. But he works 60 hours a week during the summer, lives on the pay he saves in the winter and gets state-guaranteed student loans when the cash runs out. Mostly he works in lumber mills, like his Mexican immigrant father; his mother frequently sends him vegetables that she cans in their Stockton home, and his grandmother sometimes encloses a $1 bill in a letter...
...building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry, they have warmly praised a few lumber and paper companies for enlightened use of Maine land. What they do oppose is destruction of the unspoiled Maine coast by high-risk industries like oil and aluminum. As Editor Cole puts it: "There is no such thing as a little rape...
...cross a private beach. On the New Jersey shore, the snobbish resort of Deal forbids any waterfront property owner or occupant to allow even his own guests to swim from the beach. The rule has rarely been enforced in the past, but when the friends of a wealthy lumber dealer began splashing in the surf at a clambake this summer, the police issued a summons to one guest. He was later fined $200 in court, although the sentence was suspended...
...remodeling job $15 an hour for a carpenter whose wages are $6 05 an hour. The difference is made up by fringe benefits, payments to subcontractors-and a 50% to 60% markup that covers the contractor's overhead and profits. In addition, contractors usually buy pipe, lumber and other materials at discounts, but charge the homeowner the standard price plus "delivery costs." The markup over the contractor's price ranges from at least 10% in Chicago to 30% in Miami...