Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produces more than 25% of the world's wool, will not pool its wool and sacrifice the fancy prices it has been getting at auction. There are other complications. Britain is still shipping such strategic items as electrical and generating machinery to Russia in return for badly needed timber, oats and barley...
Shawcross defended the government's policy on the ground that Britain received a fifth of her total timber imports and a third of her total imports of coarse grains from Russia. Said he: "The advantages we get ... are at least as great as those which the Communist powers obtain...
...Timber!" Waiting for her operation, Mrs. Levandowski was merry and full of jokes. To turn over in bed, she had to call for a task force of nurses. "They'd come arunning," she says, "and when they'd roll me over, I'd yell 'Timber...
...Country. World's largest republic: 3,286,000 square miles, mostly jungle; 50 million people, mostly illiterate. Rich undeveloped resources (iron, manganese, timber, probably Amazonian oil). Proverbial "land of tomorrow-only tomorrow never comes." Dynamic exception: industrial Sāo Paulo, one of the world's great and fastest-growing cities...
...Houses were buried on the outskirts of Andermatt. Some 500 British and 70 American tourists suffered a sybaritic exile, stranded in the luxury hotels of Davos. In central Switzerland the 4,100-ft. high village of Vals was crushed by a torrent of snow, rock and snapped timber. A small hotel at Oberalpsee was completely buried...