Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Railroads. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. reported a net profit of $62.8 million for 1948, second biggest in its history (biggest: 1942-5 $73.6 million). But its wholly owned subsidiary, the Western Improvement Co. and its affiliates, which operate the oil, mining and timber enterprises spread beside the Santa Fe's tracks, did even better. Net profit of $11.2 million was its best ever. As in other years, the profit did not go to Santa Fe but into Western Improvement's surplus, bringing it to $58.8 million. Said Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley...
THOMAS L. STUART Big Timber, Mont...
...Factories. Like the movement he headed for over 20 years, Chaim Weizmann was born in one of the darkest corners of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden...
...home in Oregon's big timber country where she grew up, perky little Elsa Berner used to hear tall tales about a fellow named Paul Bunyan. She never understood why her schoolteachers talked a lot about Hercules and Thor, but never mentioned Paul...
...ancient islanders, who had no metal or even timber, manage to transport the statues over the steep rim of the crater and down the rugged mountain? Their hideous religion may have supplied the motive, but not the means...