Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Randolph Hearst, has called a truce in the Chicago newspaper war for the duration of the campaign, bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...
...discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers...
...bleak little port of Churchill, Manitoba, on the west side of Hudson Bay last week churned the freighter Firby, bound for England with six passengers, a cargo of wheat, flour, timber. The first ship to clear Churchill this year, the Firby was also the first to carry passengers to Europe under an organized booking service. In the past, passengers have occasionally been taken, usually listed as crew. The new arrangement is the latest Canadian effort to make a paying proposition out of Churchill, which was developed as a port five years ago at tremendous cost, has so far proved...
...entrance to the Alabama State Fair Grounds outside Birmingham last week WPA workmen raised timber scaffolding around the largest cast-iron statue in the world. An intricate block & tackle was set up and, to the banging of hammers & chisels the head of Birmingham's "Iron Man," marvel of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, was pulled off and lowered to the ground. After 30 years of neglect Birmingham's Vulcan was about to be moved to the top of the same Red Mountain from which much of the ore he is made...
...shipped back to Birmingham. Nobody wanted him. The huge sections were dumped off the freight cars to lie rusting in the weeds by a railroad siding. After three years Vulcan was re-erected at the entrance of the Fair Grounds, his damaged left arm propped up by a huge timber...