Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Sherman's father, old John Sherman Cooper, was Pulaski County's first school superintendent, a county judge, the founder of the Farmer's National Bank, and the owner of vast coal and timber land. True to his surname, he was also in the cooperage business, making staves for whisky kegs. Every Sunday he sat alone in his rear pew in the First Baptist Church (Mrs. Cooper always sat across the aisle with the ladies...
John Crane, manager of the East Asiatic Timber and Mining Co., does not feel as if he is carrying the white man's burden. He is fond of the indolent Siamese town of Luang Nakon, where he makes his headquarters. He likes the routine of his work and the evening drinks at the run-down sahibs' club. He enjoys his friendship with the only non-white member of the club, Major Chai Wut, the police chief. But in 1953, John Crane faces upheaval, knows it and resents it. "Why are they telling us to go?" he asks Major...
Harpoon & Lavatory. In 1771, the society brought about the invention of a gun harpoon for whalers, became a clearinghouse for information on every improvement of the microscope and telescope. To provide the Royal Navy with, timber, it put up prizes for the planting of trees, was eventually credited with having inspired the planting of 50 million. It was the guiding spirit behind Captain Bligh's famous trip on the Bounty, gave him a gold medal for his report on the care of breadfruit trees. It inspired a horseless carriage (its fuel: gunpowder) the design of the first really practical...
...million agreement with Belgium (ships, cranes and lead, for Russian timber, gasoline and passenger cars...
...orchestras for their hosts' enlightenment. Smart-suited Soviet buyers are shopping everywhere, touting a bottomless ^market (of 660 million Russians and Chinese) for the surplus commodities of Western farms and factories. The Communists want cotton, wool, fats, steel and rubber-and the payment they offer is attractive: gold, timber, even strategic materials...