Word: timber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false SEC report and misappropriating $1,953,000 of the funds of the E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., the lumber milling giant that he had bossed before fleeing last June; twelve New York State charges of grand larceny; a U.S. tax lien amounting to $3,500,000. The erstwhile timber wolf of Wall Street faced up to 194 years in jail. Why then had he returned from extradition-free Brazil...
...came aerial films with truly worrisome signs. They showed roads being slashed through tall timber, Russian-made tents mushrooming in remote places. The order went out to photograph Cuba mountain by mountain, field by field and, if possible, yard by yard...
...Pacific North west woods to cut the cost of hauling out logs. But when he tried to amend the Jones Act, the President ran head-on into opposition from maritime interests and from Southern Congressmen, who are not inclined to help the Northwest compete against their own Southeastern timber industry...
...Least Elastic. As if conscious of the pitfalls of comfortable old age, Scripps-Howard has in recent months chopped some of its most seasoned timber. Patriarchal Roy Howard has gradually stripped himself of all of his titles but chairman of the executive committee, and several aging Scripps-Howard editors have been replaced. Morale and pay are both often low on Scripps-Howard newspapers, many of which are understaffed and penny-pinched. But enthusiasm still has room to grow in the nurturing climate of local autonomy, and management now makes a point of trying to attract younger...
Kudos for the objective analysis of pesticides. Far too many book reviewers have been impressed by Rachel Carson's lucidity rather than the substance of her new book. Pests kill ten times as much timber as forest fires do. Civilization has to live with careful use of pesticides, just as we must live with the automobile and other devices that can cause their toll through improper...