Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recession. In Michigan auto cities, Great Lakes steel towns and Far West mine and timber communities, there were anticipated slumps, together with demands for extended unemployment compensation quickly. But in the eyes of most voters the economic picture is far from dismal. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: "The recession hasn't hit this part of the country yet." Reported Indiana Republican William G. Bray: "Recession talk is not as prevalent as I thought." Even in Florida, hard hit by a citrus freeze and a bad tourist season, Democratic Senator George Smathers was "most surprised" at the lack...
...Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., which is able to evaluate insect damage in 1% of the time previously required. Weyerhaeuser is now moving into helicopters to reseed forest areas faster and more economically than before...
...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
...began to create her own kind of world in wood while she was still a child. Born on the black earth of the Ukrainian steppes, she came to the U.S. with her parents when she was four, settled with them in Rockland, Me., where the interlocking arms of heavy timber and the gentle twigs of rocky bush excited her imagination. While her family made a good living out of lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students...
...unaware that in building their bridge, they are also constructing a hideous paradox. Even as the British prisoners, with proper pride, are drawing plans for their structure, a British Commando unit is hatching a plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will be for many almost a shattering experience...