Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sakhalin is fabulously rich (timber, gold, oil, coal), tempting to greedy neighbors. In 1905 Japan wrested its southern half away from Russia. In 1918, when Russia was in revolution, Japanese soldiers marched north, held the whole island for seven years. When finally they left the upper half, they took with them a 45-year concession for coal...
What most astonished many a soldier reader of the Library bulletin was the language of the Library's recommendation of the article: "a comprehensive and objective appraisal of the General as Presidential timber, with special reference to the character of his backers and an analysis of his military reputation before Pearl Harbor and afterwards...
Lillian Smith's paternal ancestors were hard-working plantation pioneers in the flat, baking, featureless country of Ware County, Ga. Her father made a fortune in timber and turpentine, lost it at the end of World War I, at a moment when he was fighting the unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese...
Wolfs Clothing. In Union City, N.J., Deputy City Game Warden William Kuhn conjectured that the timber wolf prowling the Hudson County marshland had probably entered from Canada last December- in a carload of Christmas trees...
...debate grew detailed. Leader Barkley nailed the President's false classification of social-security taxes as general revenue. Bringing up his point against the timber tax, Mr. Roosevelt reminded the leaders that he is a treegrower himself. Politely but firmly, Barkley declared that the President's annual crop of quick-growing Christmas "bushes" cannot be compared with the once-a-generation harvest of slow-growing commercial timber...