Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woodman's axe rings once more among Presidential timber. Industrious politicians prepare with the approach of Winter to sluice their sturdy oaks through the waters of party politics down to the convention sawmill. The Stewart Edward Whites and James Oliver Curwoods of politics have already written the opening chapters of the great log drive...
...much as 15 degrees, through scientific ventilation. Temperatures in the depths of the earth increase from natural causes, but added to this the Butte mines have to contend with fires which have burned for many years in worked-out regions, one continuously since 1889. These fires feed on timber and combustible sulphides, and burning laterally and vertically, have so heated the adjacent rock and air as to render the lower veins untenable for human beings...
...Timber as Well as Souls. Last year the wagons of the Salvation Army collected 55,000 tons of waste paper from the various homes of the nation. This small item, buried in the report of the Social Service Department of the S. A., so inspired Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, that he turned aside from pressing legislative matters to bring the report to the attention of the State Forestry Department, writing an enthusiastic letter to its head, and pointing out that since six tons of paper came from an acre of trees, the Salvation Army had salvaged 9,000 acres...
...places; the males are thoroughly masculine; the hard-riding heroine resembles successive window displays at Abercrombie and Fitch's and Bedell's. The plot is concerned with the cruel villainies of a pair of French Canadians attempting to mulct the poor girl of her rightful inheritance in timber lands. The hero arrives in time to prevent the mulcting. There is a fight which spatters blood all over a perfectly good chateau and a good job in bridge dynamiting. The rest of the action is adequately exciting...
Assurances from Mr. Ford that despite recent purchases of coal, timber, water and rails, his cash balance still exceeds...