Word: timberman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn, a B-25 and the last transport would take off, carrying Brigadier General Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, his tactical staff, General "Tim" Timberman. Chief of Ground Forces, David Lee ("Tex") Hill. On the ground then would remain only the last demolition men under Colonel Waldo Kenerson, to blow the last field, the last buildings; and Major George Hightower to make sure no air-corps strays were left behind at the last minute...
Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...