Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams, the most improved squad in the league since Bobby James and Tom Lacy, former varsity timber, decided to report, was additionally strengthed yesterday when George Kuhn, first string end on the 1942 Freshman squad, appeared in a Gold Coast uniform...
...export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports in the west...
...Shea did not believe them. A U. S. Forest Service official, he had been puzzled by large numbers of fires destroying timber from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...Willkie disorganization of amateurs did their best. Politically speaking, their best was none too good. But by the Convention's second day, a few interested professionals had tiptoed out of the tall timber, taken a look, listened, pledged their cold political steel...
...through the 18th Century, the Spanish tried to get the Rock back. In 1779-83 they and the French besieged it continuously, finally gave up when their fleet of ships reinforced with green timber, cork and rawhide was set afire by red-hot British cannonballs. In that long siege, British General Sir George Elliot lost in action only 333 out of 7,000 men in the face of attackers totaling 40,000. Britain offered to trade Gibraltar for Florida or for Minorca, but the Spanish refused. Spain offered to buy it for $10,000,000 and the British refused...