Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technicolor is invaluable in a picture of this sort, and the logging sequences are particularly well done. Admirers of tall timber and crashing cataracts will be right in their element...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...
...collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string of two-year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece of timber through his chest that killed him. Discovery, theretofore the most dependable horse in the U. S.. ran so badly he had to be retired. Last week, at Santa Anita's opening, Vanderbilt horses failed to finish in the money...
...trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks up to 12,000 ft. above sea level to shut off cold northern winds, snow from December to April, sun hot enough for skiing without a shirt...
Most artificial advantage of Sun Valley is Sun Valley Lodge. It is built of concrete poured into timber molds to look like wood, decorated by Marjorie Oelrichs, wife of Bandleader Eddy Duchin. whose theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief...