Word: timber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addressing a National Conference on the Utilization of Forest Products (called by the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace), President Coolidge warned: "The era of free, wild timber is reaching its end, as the era of free, wild food ended so long ago. We can no longer depend on moving from one primeval forest to another, for already the sound of the axes has penetrated the last of them...
There should be no lack of good timber this year, with but five letter men lost through graduation, and a wealth of ability from the unbeaten Freshmen of last year...
That same Congress was passing; and the presidential timber was beginning to put forth its springtime tendrils. Senator Oscar W. Underwood sailed for Europe, saying that he would consider his candidacy when he returned. Hopeful Senator Hiram W. Johnson went overseas?looking perhaps for ammunition to fire at President Harding's foreign policy. The name of Henry Ford was on the tip of many a tongue. William G. McAdoo was paving his path to the Democratic Convention. President Harding, bent on a deserved rest, turned south to Florida; and Senator William E. Borah, going home to Idaho, stopped at Akron...
...Chauncey M. Depew, onetime ubiquitous, silver-tongued herald of the Republican Party, said (of Coolidge) : "His own platform and his own campaign" ; (of Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt) : "The same sound timber in the son as in the honored sire...
...considerable nervousness among the Moscow Governmental hierarchy. Krassin, Kamenev and Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar to the East instead of export of grain. No decision was reached...