Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether he can do as well Saturday night is something else again. Sparrow will be on hand. So will Sweden's Haakon Lidnan, Dillard (Baldwin Wallace), Nelson (NYU), Mitchell (Indiana), Alberghini (Northeastern), and a flock of lesser timber toppers. The 45-yard distance is short for Flint, who needs a lot of room in which to get rolling. He will have Dave Read as a running-mate...
...Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch his pretty wife, Martie, cooking a 19-pound turkey...
Christmas trees were sparse in London (those with a diameter of more than 2¼ inches rated as timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...
...last week's formalization of the U.S.-British zonal economic merger, was yes. The British zone had been a liability for Britain and a road block to Western European reconstruction. Coal production had declined steadily from a January 1946 high of 5,045,058 tons. Lack of steel, timber and building materials had halted reconstruction. Food rations, cut in February, were still at starvation levels...
...affable Al Johnson, now 47, was running the General Timber Co., Ltd. when Marathon took it over in 1938, retained him as general manager of its pulpwood operations near Port Arthur. His contract called for an annual salary of $7,500 plus a production bonus...