Word: timber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who has worried over this waste is the Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Timber Co., which owns 5% (about two million acres) of the timberland in Oregon and Washington. The world's biggest lumber firm, it devised a simple way to use sawdust, by pressing it into fireplace logs (Prestologs) at its Longview (Wash.) plant...
...GOPoohbah, the undaunted Colonel is embarrassing his party's national leadership with lavish gifts of his time, thought and peremptory advice. He is scheming to capture the state delegation to Philadelphia in 1948, if not the convention itself. He has already cut down most presidential timber, thinks General MacArthur "the only successful man in public life today...
...history of Alaska," he said, "is a history of neglect as far as federal relations are concerned." Only by becoming a state, he argued, could Alaskans gain better transportation, better utilization of timber lands, funds for agricultural experiment, more schools and other practical foundations for a mature economy...
With a roar, the tornado hit. It blew the house down, yanked Beebe out of the basement, 30 feet in the air, and carried him 200 yards due east. Wright was borne 40 feet aloft with "a lot of timber" which battered and scratched him. He landed some 300 yards away in a wild plum thicket. After the storm had passed, bewildered cattle stood bellowing, boards and sticks driven into their sides. Only the concrete jail remained intact. In the town's crumpled ruins, Wright and Beebe and other survivors found 16 dead and dying...
...wool products factory, a shoe factory, a tannery, a clay products plant, a box factory, a timber marketing board, a fish-filleting plant, a fur marketing service, a printing office, a housing corporation, a reconstruction corporation and insurance agency, a bus line...