Word: timber
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Southern pine is a sticky, spindly tree that grows weedlike in every abandoned field, reproduces a stand of timber (unlike the North's mighty, slow-growing spruce and fir) in 15 or 20 years. It has long been used for kraft (boxes and wrapping) paper...
Steve Madey will probably be vying with Tom Lussen of Yale in the pole-vault. Lussen topped the timber at 12 feet, 6 inches at the Mill rose games. Steve was right up with him through 12 feet, but his pole broke when he was on the verge of adding the extra half foot...
...addition, Junior timber-topper Don Donahue has been entered in the star-studded high hurdles field, and Steve Madey is in the pole vault. On past performances, both men have a chance to place, and the whole six-man delegation should gain valuable indoor experience...
...lawyer, writing orations for practice in the hot, sandy afternoons; galloping his horse to & from a young man's fun in the Kansas night. He was the smartest sprig in Idaho, taking up for downtrod Chinese, farmers, Mormons while he served the corporations which owned the mines, the timber and the Republican Party in the State. He was the bridegroom of blonde Mamie McConnell (whose papa was Governor of Idaho). He was a renegade Republican, going down with the Democrats and Bryan and 16-to-1 Silver in 1896, striding back unchastened to the Republican Party...
...Allies' octopus-like attack on Germany's economic life. Most important new tentacle of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, sparkplugged by lean, dapper Ronald Cross, is a trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift...