Word: timber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threefold control, the Soviet Union was taking from eastern Europe not only manufactured goods that Russia desperately needed, but also products of which it had an abundance. Last year, the Soviet Union took most of Poland's exportable coal (15 million tons), all of Rumania's exportable timber (203,000 tons), all of Bulgaria's exportable tobacco (35,000 tons...
Britons had pinned high hopes on a successful trade deal with Moscow. To help ease the drain on Britain's U.S. dollar credits, they wanted grain and timber in exchange for British machinery. After weeks of tough bargaining, agreement seemed at last in sight...
...Timber, copper, iron...
...Oregon, the logging town of Shevlin (pop. 600), complete with houses, offices, stores, post office, was moved to a new location for the fifth time in 26 years. Everything was hoisted onto railroad cars, hauled 40 miles to a new timber stand...
...President. The modern forester behind all this is John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., 48, greying grandson of the company's founder. Last week Phil Weyerhaeuser was elected president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., top company of the sprawling family interests which include sawmills, pulp mills and ocean-going steamers (President H. H. Irvine died last winter). A Yale graduate and a member of the Yale battery during World War I, he went to work for the company in 1920, concentrated on conservation measures. He started the firm on selective cutting of trees, later got it to branch out into research...