Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
...collection of economic plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
Other briefs in the Soviet press have warned that instances exist of Donets coal miners using timber, nails and bricks allotted them by the State to build homes, to build their village a church instead. Ten collective farms in the Dubovka region were reported to consist entirely of members of the Molokani sect. At Torzhok a majority of girls belonging to the Young Communists also belong to the Church. Most scandalous and alarming of all from the Communist point of view: the Soviet press has been reporting that in public baths Red Army soldiers are frequently seen with small Orthodox...
...names of nominated candidates and but a small percentage of the nominations have yet been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...