Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, inspecting U.S. forces now under his command (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), visited the U.S. 104th Infantry Division, commanded by battlewise Major General Terry Allen, expressed admiration for the timber-wolfhead insigne worn by the 104th. Allen promptly ripped off his shoulder patch, gave it to besweatered, bereted Monty...
Playing the Eastern circuit last week, Oklahoma A. & M. gave 18,102 Manhattanites a chance to size up its redhaired, 7-ft. Bob Kurland. the game's No. 1 tall timber. With Kurland collecting rebounds by the handful-his jumping reach is higher than the 10-ft.-high basket-unbeaten A. & M. humbled first-class N.Y.U., 44-to-41. (In another Madison Square Garden doubleheader, Muhlenberg's Mules, playing a cagey boring-in game, took St. Francis in stride, 56-to-18, for their sixth straight...
...also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits. It was one of the biggest lumber deals in U.S. history...
...Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich Karelia were lost...
...regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...