Word: timberlands
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...filth." He was cited for gallantry at Shiloh-and lived to be reviled as "Prince of Bummers." He was a devoted family man, and yet spent much of his time with another man's wife. Some $16 million in bonds, three mansions, a railroad, and countless acres of timberland passed through his hands; but the day came when he was jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure of U.S. history was Union General Milton Smith Littlefield. In this book, North Carolina Author (A Southerner Discovers the South) and Editor (Raleigh News...
...areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live in the preserve...
...earlier road builders, who often followed Indian trails, cow paths and other roundabout routes of least resistance, today's planners lay out their roads from helicopters and planes with an eye to the shortest distance, then put their machines to cutting the highways over mountains and through trackless timberland, bridging lakes and rivers, spanning cities...
...Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, 61, was elected president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., largest in the country (2,600,000 acres of timberland, 1955 sales of more than $300 million), succeeding his conservation-minded younger brother J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr., who died early this month of leukemia (TIME, Dec. 17). Timber King Weyerhaeuser was born in Rock Island, 111., graduated from Yale in 1917, piloted U.S. bombers on the Italian front during World War I. He joined Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. as an Iowa field representative in 1920, has been its president since 1929 and chairman of the present company since...
Died. John Philip (Phil) Weyerhaeuser Jr., 57, publicity-shy (since 1935, when his son George was kidnaped and ransomed for $200,000) president of the $300 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., the Northwest's largest (with 2,500,000 acres of timberland in Washington and Oregon), who pioneered selective cutting, tree farming, changed U.S. lumbering from a looters' pillage to a responsible business; of leukemia; in Tacoma, Wash...