Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration. Shops, depots, harbor and railroad works, he said, were suffering a "reign of dirt." Dirt, he said, is "the bulwark of capitalist traditions." It was interesting to note that Comrade Malenkov's sharpest criticisms were leveled at producers and transporters of goods destined for Germany: oil, ores, timber, wheat...
Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...
Carpenters came last week to Capitol Plaza, lugging tools and timber. Tourists stared; occasionally a gloomy lame-duck Congressman pottered by. The carpenters' job was to build the Inaugural Day platform, set up hundreds of benches, before Washington's winter closed...
...pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress to the Sudan. But some of the raw materials which the French and British West African colonies produce are cocoa, vegetable oils, gold, manganese, timber...
...Germany did not gain materially in wartime industrial strength, Britain lost enough to make Germany's conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world...