Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn (71%), its beef (50%) abroad. Bolivia's copper, lead and silver go abroad and most (80% ) of its tin-mined amid the ruins of the Inca Empire in the Andes-goes to Britain. Beef and wool from southern Brazil go to Europe. Except for some Paraná pine exported from Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay, exports of maté (South American tea) from Brazil and Paraguay to Argentina, and imports of Argentine cereals by Bolivia, Argentina's middleman business in Paraguayan imports & exports to Europe is the only sizable intra-Plata commerce...
...slab-sided skyscrapers, stocky, bob-haired Sculptor Milles had worked for three years. Milles got the idea for his singing statue from a line by German Poet Johann Gottfried Seume: "Where song is, pause and listen; evil people have no song." Taking three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed-looking faun and a pleased, curious-eyed nymph. When he had finished, Sculptor Milles...
...fertility, for which no price, however free or however protected, is high enough. Said he: "There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear the stream below as long as the old sow wallows in the spring above...
Reared above the plaza, level with the Capitol's top step, stood the inaugural platform, the white paint only a few hours fresh on the new pine boards. On the unroofed south side of the platform were gathered the House members; on the unroofed north, the Senate. Under the roof on its eight, paint-wet, wooden Corinthian columns the Supreme Court was ranked, in formal robes; behind the Court the Cabinet, behind them the Diplomatic Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President...
Price pyramiding in the lumber industry was outstanding. Late in August, the Army's cantonment orders hit the lumber markets (particularly southern pine & Douglas fir). In two months, the price of yellow pine timbers jumped 27% and stayed there-although the Army's ordering was finished in one week. By December, each week brought a new markup in a different type or grade of lumber...