Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
...major acquisition of national park private land Secretary Wilbur made deep bows of gratitude to Mr. Rockefeller, to Michigan's Congressman Louis C. Cramton, author of the purchase provision in the Interior Department appropriation bill, and to the lumber company in Yosemite which had withheld cutting over its timber tract until the U. S. was ready...
...into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National Park, 2,000 acres. Sizzling and snapping up Black Mountain in the Purgatory Range, flames leapt over into Kentucky forests, destroyed a lumber camp. Villagers in widely scattered mountain districts were alarmed. Firefighters deployed by thousands along the Alleghenies, prayed for rain...
...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind...
...William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became either rich or famous, many returned East. William Taylor took a cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle of Portsmouth...