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Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...
Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...
These traitors and their mates were sent to jail for varying terms. They will come out, says Author West, as they went in: "Unchanged in their essential and dangerous quality. . . . They will be timber for the next international revolutionary movement...
...rebirth of Britain's merchant marine also involved a whopping financial gamble. Like many other British industries, British yards have become both slow and expensive. Timber and steel are short; delivery of generators and other suppliers' parts is often as much as 18 months late. Labor productivity is down, wages...
...million of timber in the next four years...