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Word: timbered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Czechoslovakia is running into balance of payments difficulties and has had to cut back drastically on its imports of production equipment. The country's primary exports, including timber and Prague ham, are in short supply. Another reason for the export decline is the increasing shoddiness of Czechoslovak goods. A survey of fac tory managers showed that two-thirds of them give priority to the home market because, the report said, "the people are not selective." The men in charge of the economy vigorously protest the refusal of the U.S. to grant Czechoslovakia most-favored-nation tariff treatment. By stimulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE HIGH PRICE OF REPRESSION | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...power, the liberals were paradoxically parceling it out to a variety of special interests-some old, some new and better organized. It was not the Federal Government but blocs of farmers who in reality determined the policies of the Agriculture Department. Broadening the powers of the Interior Department gave timber interests more incentive to exercise sway over government. The Army Corps of Engineers responded to the demands of local developers. Direct federal control, so widely asserted in theory, became more and more attenuated in practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Pluralism | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...inquiry through all literature, but it is particularly relevant for America today. The common fury in the hearts of the disenchanted can extend beyond Black Power and campus rebellion into suburbia, and farther. In David Shetzline's second novel, that rage explodes during a forest fire in the timber country of Oregon. Before the fire is smothered by a snowstorm, it has scorched the lives of several middle-aged American males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dispirited Warriors | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

ELDRED BROWN Big Timber, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...month closing of the Suez Canal. In tiny mountain towns of Western Canada, long-unemployed miners are going back to work to dig the coal needed to fill a new $600 million order from Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan, cut timber in Siberia and make 70% of the baseball gloves sold in the U.S. Japanese experts are training rice farmers in India, and fishermen in Ceylon, building drydocks in Singapore and generally doing more than U.S. foreign-aid officials to develop the economies of many Asian nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: JAPAN'S STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH PLENTY | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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