Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITAIN, whose daily bread depends on worldwide trade, was mightily disturbed at the prospect of receding markets in both Asia and America. Ex-Labor Minister Harold Wilson went bustling off to Moscow in search of timber supplies for Britain's housing drive; Bevanite Sydney Silverman stayed at home and told the House of Commons that "nothing can be more ridiculous than [our] straining every nerve . . . to export goods to the one market [the U.S.] in all the world that does not need them . . . whereas all over the world there are [Communist] markets waiting . . ." Even Rab Butler, the commonsensical Tory...
...would be regained in the sale of seats. Brewers estimated that the tax on extra coronation day beer sales would be enough to pay all coronation costs and send a surplus to the Exchequer. The economy-minded coronation committee announced that all of the steel and 85% of the timber used in grandstands and decorations would be reusable, and no drain on Britain's 300,000-houses-a-year building program...
...great stands of timber around Ryderwood were cut down, it became almost a ghost town (see cut). The population, once 2,000, dwindled to less than 100 families. Last July, when the 130,000-acre cut-over area was set aside as a tree farm, Long-Bell put the town up for sale, refused all offers to sell it for salvage. Last fall a Los Angeles real-estate man named Harry Kem* turned up with a different idea. He had become interested in the problem of people past 65 who were having a hard time finding decent places to live...
...White Russians. General Holmston was born Boris Smyslowski, near St. Petersburg, 55 years ago. He was a much-decorated Czarist lieutenant when he first started fighting the Reds in 1917. After the Bolsheviks won, he fled to Germany, adopted the name Von Regenau, and made a living as a timber inspector. In World War II, the Nazis sent him to the Balkan front, where he commanded a special division of 4,000 anti-Communist Russian guerrillas...
...real-life priest was no ordinary padre. He was the Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna, Giacomo Lercaro, 61, known as the most unconventional cardinal in the college and one of the most papábile (Italian for papal timber). Only six years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican...