Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Zink, the millionaire owner of a furnace company, finds adventure atop a 100,000-lb. bulldozer, clearing timber and building roads on a 12,000-acre tract near Tulsa that he is turning into a Boy Scout camp. That's not adventure? Well, it is when one considers that Zink is 72 years old, and that he has more than once had to throw himself clear when his huge dozer overturned in the rugged country. "Of course it's dangerous," snorts Zink. "But I haven't any time for country clubs or flitting off to Europe...
...instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that of the U.S. The Soviet Union holds first place in the world for production of granulated sugar, butter, woolen fabrics, metal-cutting machines, iron ore, coke, cement, reinforced concrete and timber. Obviously, the present changes were not caused by the painful sputter of the Soviet economic engine. Nor have the Communists seen advantages in capitalist methods. The reform means the transition to policy that conforms to the Soviet Union's present possibilities. By abolishing the economic councils and setting up ministries...
Writing Good. To help such people, who do not feel poor and who resist change in any form, the anti-poverty warriors face obstacles as impervious as the Cumberland's timber-topped mountains. To date, Washington has poured $1.2 billion into its Appalachia program, mostly for 3,350 miles of new roads; the aim is to lure new industries to Appalachian cities and give mountaineers ready access to the jobs thus created. But, as evidenced by the few person-to-person anti-poverty projects that have been launched thus far under the program, the challenges of transforming the mountaineer...
...mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC. 5-6:30 p.m.). World Roller Skating championships in Madrid and the World Timber Carnival in Albany...