Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurdlers Harrison Dillard, Jack Davis and Art Barnard, 110-meter timber-toppers, whose blanket finish may well be duplicated in the games...
...Americans have thought much about replenishing the cupboard of natural resources: "As a nation, we have always been more interested in sawmills than in seedlings." Timber is now being used up 40% faster than new stands are growing; in 1950, the nation used up 8% of its known petroleum reserves, 6% of its lead and iron ore. But absolute shortages, says the commission, "are not the threat in the materials problem . . . The threat lies in insidiously rising costs"-not just dollar costs, but "real" costs in terms of the man-hours and capital needed. For years, "these real costs have...
...consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...
Presidential Timber (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Featuring Candidate Averell Harriman...
Last week the council finally handed down a decision on this problem, based on the sale of a single share of timber stock, worth $172. Said the council: since the broker knew that Lippmann, Rosenthal had put the stock on the market, the sale was illegal; the stock must be returned to its original owner. At the news, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange stopped issuing quotations and thus, in effect, stopped all trading. With thousands of similar stock titles now up in the air (most U.S.-held Dutch securities have clear title), the exchange would not accept responsibility for any further...