Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straining Men's Energies. From the start British Columbia has strained men's energies. The first Briton to land there, Captain James Cook, put in at Nootka Sound in 1778 to gaze at the stands of tall timber, the schools of ocean salmon and herds of sea otter. Within a few years British merchantmen plied regular routes from the British Columbia coasts with cargoes of furs for China, Britain and the U.S. Pelts were only the beginning. The cry "gold" brought a clamoring horde of adventurers sweeping north from the U.S. to mining camps along the Fraser...
...longer than British Columbians care to admit, trapping, timber and gold were enough to satisfy most of the immigrants. As late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...
...left that to accept a position in England with a British-Russian trading corporation. His "acquired practical knowledge" of international economics and world trade, he confesses modestly, helped him become president of the second largest corporation in Russia, where he was in charge of all exportation and importation of timber...
Private life, too, is not to last for long. Some communes are already planning to tear down' the houses of their members and use the salvaged brick, tile and timber to build communal barracks. In Honan two-thirds of the province's 10 million children are now being cared for in communal nurseries, and in some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem...
Stein Way. In Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, crewmen from a German timber freighter said they had run out of water during their voyage, but had been able to finish the trip on beer...