Word: reforest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen who ordinarily cannot get long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...
...producer of timber products, Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Venturing out of Pacific Northwest, where it holds 2,600,000 acres of timberlands, Weyerhaeuser will take options from Mississippi Pulp & Paper Co. and other local owners on 90,000 acres of logged-off pinelands in Mississippi and Alabama, reforest the land, eventually build a major pulping plant near Columbus, Miss...
...taken on the P.M.A. as soon as he became governor in 1946, had licked them to a standstill ever since. He had outraged Grundymen by insisting that manufacturers purify or divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...