Word: spruces
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time of year again for Canada's best-known industry, and growers were busy cutting the 15 million Christmas trees that they will sell this year. However, there is a bit of strain in the merriment this year for Canada's exporters of pine, spruce, Douglas and balsam firs. Reason: artificial trees are making steady inroads into the lucrative Christmas tree market...
...virtual "home" of U.S. skiing, the Stowe area is typifield by the Mt. Mansfield Co. which operates multitudes of trails and lifts on Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak. The area is so vast in its development that the ski school alone employs 50 instructors.5MT. TOM SKI AREA...
...formerly Smuggler's Notch) near Stowe has replaced two pomas with a new 5700-foot Hall double chair to augment last year's 6600 foot chair. A new giant slalom trail has been cut which drops 2168 feet in 2.5 miles. The new developments provide easy access to the Spruce-Peak area at Stowe...
...employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol of the times. In Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, a regal, 60-ft. Norway spruce blazed with thousands of lights and shiny aluminum spangles...
Losers, by and large, tend to be weepers. And weepers tend to be bores. But George Lisle-Spruce, the down-at-heel non-hero of British Novelist Scott's newest book, is neither. He watches himself sinking for what may be the last time with a detached compassion that is as refreshing as it is rare in an age much given to voluble self-pity...