Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause of the fire could not be determined, although it was believed to have started near Route 32, burning eastward into the Harvard Forest. The fire began at 1:30 p.m. and was quenched by 7:30 p.m., before destroying Forest buildings and even more valuable timber...
THREE-WAY MERGER will put Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., biggest U.S. lumber producer (but second to diversified Crown-Zellerbach in overall business) into the finished-container field for first time. In face of sagging U.S. lumber sales, Weyerhaeuser will absorb Chicago's Eddy Paper Corp. and New Jersey's Kieckhefer Container Co. in $200 million stock swap, emerge as fully integrated lumber-pulp-container producer, with annual earnings of about $65 million...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...
Outdoor Theater. Financed by Britain's Ministry of Works, Hope-Taylor excavated the site with prodigious care. He skinned off the topsoil and found faint color changes that showed where timber had rotted. He also found a few foundation stones and many traces of holes where posts had been set in the earth. Working from these clues, Hope-Taylor concluded that the wedge-shaped area had been the site of a crude, roofless, theaterlike structure filled with wooden benches. Facing the benches was a dais protected from the weather by a screen of wickerwork daubed with clay. From this...
...organize itself. Holmes let it be known immediately that he will be pulling strong on higher teacher pay, state government reorganization. One of his first acts was to toss the fake log out of the fireplace in his executive suite, replacing it with something more suitable for a timber-producing state: real logs...