Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
Last week young voices echoed against Trogen's green hillsides, while strong young arms sawed timber and dug cellars for new homes in the village. Trogen's best efforts, Walter Corti knew, would never house more than a few hundred of Europe's helpless thousands. But the thin man was not discouraged. Said he: "The main thing is to get this village going as a model for other countries...
...century he bulked big as an illustrator (and as a Hearstling pictorial reporter), sometimes earning a sensational $25,000 a year. Thirty-six years after his death, the Hearstwhile artist is now recognized for his deadeye accuracy of detail as almost a major historian. Last year A Dash for Timber was sold for $23,000. And last week a Manhattan gallery was showing 28 early black-&-white Remingtons (including eight of his 22 famed illustrations for Hiawatha...
...Company's handful of agents settled down to a lusty, hard-drinking life (according to one observer they could not sign their names before 10 in the morning or remember them after 6 in the evening), and conducted brisk export in rubber, timber, tobacco, birds' nests, camphor, and turtle eggs. They introduced certain sublimations of the head-hunting urge-tariffs, taxes, railroads, the telegraph and the telephone...
...timber stands of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, this nocturnal scene was common last week. More than a thousand "peckerwood" (portable) sawmills had suddenly appeared and gone into frenzied production. The piles of lumber around them, and the permanent mills, covered acres (see cut). But little of it was moving legitimately into the lumber-starved housing industry; it was apparently being hoarded to cash in on high-prices if OPA ceilings came...