Word: lumberyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life," the Rev. Dan Poling once said, "and perhaps that fact may shorten my days. I know that, but I have no regrets. I would choose a full life regardless." Before he was 19, Daniel Alfred Poling became a Baptist minister. He had already worked in steel mill and lumberyard, on farm and railroad. At the time of his ordination he was making honor grades at Dallas (Ore.) College, breaking in as a reporter on the Portland Oregonian, and starring at fullback on the football team...
...years later, Alvin, her third son, had a chance to buy a back-alley lumberyard in the neighboring town of Dover, but he could find no one to lend him the money. At the first of many similar family councils around the dining room table, Mother Marsh talked things over with the whole brood, finally decided to mortgage the house to back Alvin. Starting with $1,700, Alvin soon made enough to move out of the alley, set up two branches in other cities...
...Kingsville, built to service the ranch, now has 15,000 people and a King Ranch-controlled bank, newspaper, lumberyard, store and dairy...
...change at the frontier was electric. Just at the border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
Conjuror and Scene Painter. British Author Cameron was born (1898) in London's dingy East End, slept with his unemployed parents in the workhouse. Later he worked as street-hawker, odd-job boy in a tin-plate factory, at a lumberyard, as a dispatcher, bartender, conjuror. He also painted scenery for Cavalcade, Victoria Regina, The Miracle and "practically all the best-known English and American shows between 1930 and 1939." Now he is lecturing in Upsala, Sweden...