Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement. Then there were the awful flames and the smoke." Two men working nearby dragged the housekeeper out into the yard, her clothes on fire. More explosions rocked the area. A house down the street blew up, then another, and another. People scrambled into the street dodging flying timber and glass. The blasts spread, rolled on like giant popcorn, too fast to count. A boy staggered out of a house, his arm in shreds; an old man quietly went on mowing his lawn near two shattered houses as the first fire engines roared past...
...America had not and did not need to have any significant trade with the Soviet ; it means little or nothing to her to discontinue the imports of furs, caviar and crab. With us, things are quite different. We obtain from the Soviet bloc essential foods and raw materials [timber and grain]-and we believe that in these trade exchanges we get as good as we give, economically and strategically...
...week's end, Burleigh was opening mail from Australia including one letter from a timber merchant offering "jobs for all of you and accommodations...
...huge drain is due largely to higher prices of timber, tobacco and grain, much of which Britain must buy in the dollar area (the U.S., Canada, etc.). Another worry is the Iranian oil crisis. If Britain loses her oil from Abadan, she will have to spend some $350 million more a year buying oil from the dollar area (the U.S. and Venezuela) to make up the difference...
Andrei N. Tupolev, 62, Russia's top heavy-bomber man and last of the "old guard" Red designers. Quiet, scholarly, he set up the first aerodynamics research center in 1918, together with Professor Zhukovsky four years later built his first airplane, a timber and plywood single-engine monoplane. Has turned out 30 major planes from light puddle-jumpers to 1934's lumbering, eight-engine Maxim Gorky (which crashed after a few flights). Exiled during the purges, he came back in 1942 to design attack bombers (TU-2) for the Red air force. Greatest engineering feat: copying...