Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern pine is a sticky, spindly tree that grows weedlike in every abandoned field, reproduces a stand of timber (unlike the North's mighty, slow-growing spruce and fir) in 15 or 20 years. It has long been used for kraft (boxes and wrapping) paper...
Three weeks ago, in Lufkin, Tex., the Daily News went on the street printed throughout on Southern-pine newsprint. It was the first newspaper ever to use a commercially made Southern-pine paper. Last week the Dallas Morning News followed suit, ran off an edition on 35 tons of Southern newsprint. By week's end, seven carloads of the paper Dr. Herty labored to perfect had been delivered to the Morning News press rooms...
While all I can do is just pine...
...Mackenzie Basin of northern Canada brought in a week of sleet and rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives; in San Antonio it fell gently on the adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees...
Brandy flasks passed from hand to mouth in the bone-chilling rain. The hundreds of fresh pine benches were too wet to sit on, but drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...