Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Kurth's fondest dream was to convert Southern yellow pine, not good for finished building purposes, into newsprint. Not until the mid-'30s when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another...
Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber stands. With his newsprint plant furnishing an expanding market, Kurth estimates that farmers can get $5 to $7 an acre every year from timber alone, and "you don't need a subsidy or price support program...
...White Russians faced the bare pine tribunal in the People's Court at Sarajevo to hear judgment passed on them on charges of spying for their Russian homeland, which they had not seen in three decades (TIME, Dec. 12). The courtroom was packed. Men & women stood in the aisles of the courtroom, others crowded around the loudspeakers in the corridors outside. Groups of school children had been herded in to be educated by the proceedings. In a flat monotone, wavy-haired Judge Stevo Yokanovic slowly read out the sentences...
...humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...