Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building on a grassy bank of the Thames, well out in the country where the sky was as apt to be clear as average English sky. It was designed, he explained, "for the observer's habitation...
...members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could...
...Solutions. First of all he had plenty of cash in the company's till. He had a vast empire of 21 major manufacturing and assembly plants, 15 ships, 400,000 acres of timber and mining property, geared into one of the world's greatest production machines. The war had shown what it could do. In five years, it had rolled out the whopping sum of $4 billion in planes, engines, trucks, jeeps and multitudinous weapons...
...will be Washington's poker-playing, New Dealing Governor Mon C. Wallgren. Wallgren is already getting the welcome mat out at the governor's mansion. Said he: "The suite that Truman occupied will be redone to suit Charlie's personality. After all, this is the greatest timber state in the Union...