Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their wild Irish hell-raising, one chronicler wrote: "Champagne corks popped among the section bosses, barrels of whiskey floated the spirits of the laborers higher than the howls of timber wolves in the forests. Lurching between the roaring shacks they showed off their tricks of close-in fighting, western-and highly personal-marksmanship; their excitingly various ways of love-making . . . violent . . . dangerous. Timber-cutters charged down from their mountain camps and raided the effete shovel heavers like Apaches. The shovel-heavers raided back and returned with blood on the ends of their picks...
...above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
Hardly an eyebrow lifted when in Manhattan last week a dust-filled, muscular, melodramatic painting was knocked down for that fancy price. The painting: A Dash for Timber, by Frederic Remington, No. 1 painter-illustrator of the old Wild West, fast friend of Teddy Roosevelt. Was $23,000 high...
...London dispatch to the New York Times said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
...timely provider of both was sprawling Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co., owner of the U.S.'s largest unbleached sulphite pulp mill at Bellingham, Wash., and first U.S. pulp mill in this war to manufacture alcohol from wood-pulp wastes...