Word: timbers
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...Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, 61, was elected president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., largest in the country (2,600,000 acres of timberland, 1955 sales of more than $300 million), succeeding his conservation-minded younger brother J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr., who died early this month of leukemia (TIME, Dec. 17). Timber King Weyerhaeuser was born in Rock Island, 111., graduated from Yale in 1917, piloted U.S. bombers on the Italian front during World War I. He joined Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. as an Iowa field representative in 1920, has been its president since 1929 and chairman of the present company since...
Died. John Philip (Phil) Weyerhaeuser Jr., 57, publicity-shy (since 1935, when his son George was kidnaped and ransomed for $200,000) president of the $300 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., the Northwest's largest (with 2,500,000 acres of timberland in Washington and Oregon), who pioneered selective cutting, tree farming, changed U.S. lumbering from a looters' pillage to a responsible business; of leukemia; in Tacoma, Wash...
Javits' most effective campaign plank, aside from the weak timber of peace and prosperity, has been the charge that Wagner lacks the experience required of a national officer. But being mayor of the City of New York is by no means a limited experience. That Wagner cut crime by 21 percent in New York City is not a recommendation for the Armed Services Committee, but Wagner proved himself equally adept in modernizing the city government, improving education and hospital facilities, and directing slum clearance. He has shown a Roosevelt-like ability to pick excellent advisers and to use advice effectively...
Natural Resources. Both advocate bigger and better soil, water and timber conservation programs, more support for the national-park system, more outdoor recreational facilities. At issue: the Democrats advocate more public-power projects and more Government control over the nation's resources; the Republicans believe their development must come through federal-state-local "partnerships," with all interested parties assuming equal responsibility...
...must be controlled. But the non-Reds,"if free to organize and campaign, would make a sizable showing in elections, and this is apparently what worries Castillo Armas most. Of Cordova, one government deputy said last week: "He's far worse than a Communist. He's presidential timber." Since June the government's policy has been to crack down on all dissent. Said Mario Sandoval, secretary-general of the government party, in a speech seconded by Castillo Armas: "Ours is the party of force, of combat and of organized violence-if our enemies...