Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). World Roller Skating championships in Madrid and the World Championship Timber Carnival in Albany...
DAVE JAMES Director of Public Affairs Simpson Timber Co. Seattle...
...paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass and timber. Sobbed one homeless house wife: "Everything is gone. I don't even have a pair of shoes...
...best, Peru's stony Andes can support only marginal farming. Across the peaks lies the great, green montana, Peru's eastern lowland that stretches out to the Amazon and Brazil. The montana represents 62% of Peru's land area, is rich in rubber, jute, fruits, coffee, timber and grass for ranching. Yet it is home to barely 14% of Peru's people. The problem is accessibility. There are few roads and no railroads across the mountains; transportation is by air, or up the rivers...
...millions of acres of land that have been abandoned after being gouged and torn by strip mining. It also provides $41 million for hospital construction, $28 million for hospital maintenance, $16 million to construct vocational schools, $5,000,000 for water-resources studies, $5,000,000 to help develop timber resources, $6,000,000 for sewage-treatment systems, and $2,400,000 for administration...