Word: timbered
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...Hitler wants timber. He would get 405,000,000 acres...
...steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...power saw (which weighs about 130 Ib.) it is easier to cut at the base than higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber cutters needed for mechanized logging are toppers (who knock the tops off the trees) and limbers (who slash the limbs away...
This struggle made the biggest battlefront in World War II-everywhere over the earth between sea level and timber line, wherever things grow and men eat. The Battle of Food was being fought as bitterly as the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Russia. Not many men yet realized that victory in the other great battles would never be as conclusive as a victory in the Battle of Food. But to those who did realize it, the fact was as sharp as a hunger pang. In the U.S. there was as yet no general awareness...
...fault: its coasts, washed by the Gulf Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...