Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, the lumber companies, especially the smaller ones, are almost entirely dependant upon National Forest sales for their timber. The small operators have difficulty enough obtaining timber in a straight competitive sale, since the larger companies can afford to pay more than the timber is worth in order to deprive the smaller operators and hence force them out of the area. The large company, having then no competitors, can buy National Forest timber at the minimum price...
However, a large company, if dissatisfied with marking, will request and often receive a new marker. Consequently, the large companies get almost all the large trees marked, so many that inadequate reproduction often results. This is especially deplorable when one considers that this country cuts fifty percent more timber annually than it grows...
...exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials, takes the finished products they manufacture. Czechoslovakia, for example, did 5.5 billion crowns ($770,000,000) worth of trade with Russia in 1955, giving engineering products in return for metals, petroleum, rubber, timber...
Then the Committee got to the red ink. Despite increases over 1955, production of steel, coal, cement and timber in 1956 did not reach the goals set by the Sixth Five Year Plan adopted a year ago. In addition, scowled the Committee, "the plans for housing have been only partly fulfilled," which was a soft way of saying that Russia's desperate housing situation is in terrible shape...
FIRST MOVE INTO SOUTH will be made by No. 1 U.S. producer of timber products, Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Venturing out of Pacific Northwest, where it holds 2,600,000 acres of timberlands, Weyerhaeuser will take options from Mississippi Pulp & Paper Co. and other local owners on 90,000 acres of logged-off pinelands in Mississippi and Alabama, reforest the land, eventually build a major pulping plant near Columbus, Miss...