Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grouse which Scalise had boiled, decided to try to walk out of the bush. Stirling-Hamilton had a hand compass to keep them on their course, and they headed due south. It was slow going. They bogged down in the soggy muskeg. Farther on, in a tangle of fallen timber, they almost came to a dead stop, made only ten miles in two days...
...army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
Presidential Timber (Wed. 8:30 p.m., CBS Television). Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas...
...rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
Presidential Timber (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS Television). Henry Wallace...