Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...
FRESH from his enviable success with his two great biographies "The Great Mouthpiece" and "Timber Line," Gene Fowler turns again to the novel with a brilliant piece of writing in "Salute to Yesterday." The book is the fruit of matured thought over the last six years. Its substance is a delving into the past of the Rocky Mountains and the rugged characters who were bound up in the pioneering days of the west...
...same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them,' replied the American. 'Ah, now that big tree over there' (the train had halted) 'what is that?' asked the Englishman. 'Why that; that's a beech tree,' said...
...Next, the Order of Lenin, most exalted of all Soviet decorations, was awarded to 40 of the 404 officials who had acted as jailers and supervisors of the 55,000 during their forced-labor redemption. It was suddenly revealed for the first time that new Vice-Commissar for the Timber Industry Kogan acted as a jailer in the digging of the Baltic-White Sea Canal-something workers in the Timber Commissariat had never suspected about their close-mouthed boss...