Word: timber
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...them -including Alcoa, Union Carbide, Humble Oil, Reynolds Metals and General Electric-have found the resulting problems formidable and the profits elusive. Among others, National Gypsum, Certainteed and Sunset International Petroleum have retreated with bruises from construction ventures. But not ebullient Boise Cascade Corp., the Idaho-based paper, timber and building products maker. Having spread successfully into prefabricated homes and conventional housebuilding, the company last week moved into the land-development business as well...
...dwellings will go up. And Divco-Wayne Corp., which last month agreed to merge with Boise Cascade, does a $100 million-a-year business as one of the world's foremost makers of mobile homes and travel trailers. "We've been trying to get from timber-our starting point-down to the marketplace," says President Robert V. Hansberger...
...Wall Street. The boosterism behind A67 is well founded. Today, despite its century under the American aegis, Alaska's natural resources remain largely untapped. In an 1867 speech supporting the Alaska purchase, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner spoke glowingly of the region's timber and grasslands, furs and fisheries, copper and gold lodes. Though the fur-seal herds that drew the Russians to Alaska have long since been decimated, trappers still work the beaver streams and fox warrens of the wooded, game-rich Brooks Range. Prospectors gutted gold in billion-dollar lots from the Kenai Peninsula to the Yukon...
...massive timber gate and electrified barbed-wire fence block the road between Yugoslavia and Albania-respectively, the most accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...
...British prisoner serving a life sentence for murder rises above its origins. The publishers will say nothing about the author, who uses the pen name Zeno (borrowed from the founder of Stoic philosophy), except that at various times he was a sailor, a soldier, a farmer and a timber merchant. More to the point, he was a World War II parachutist with the British 1st Airborne Division, which was trapped and methodically riddled to pieces at the Battle of Arnhem...