Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which produce most of the world's copper--Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire--agreed to a 10 per cent reduction in their exports in an effort to force a price rise on the world market. Pooling of interests is also possible among Third World producers of tin, bauxite, and timber...
...endangered species. Let ters and telegrams of protest greeted Ford on his return to Washington. It turned out that the Chief Executive was saved by the skin of his coat. While wolves in the Lower 48 states are on the endangered list, the 50,000 or so timber wolves that inhabit Alaska are not, so Ford emerged blameless on a technicality. The coat was the gift of an Alaska furrier named Jack Kim, who gave it to Ford on his stopover in Anchorage en route to Japan...
...memories were often harsh. The son of a shiftless, intemperate father, Shaw began tending the hardscrabble Alabama soil almost as soon as he could walk. When he was not plowing or picking cotton, he cut and hauled timber, hacked out railroad crossties, carved ax handles, wove baskets. At 21 he married, left his servitude to his father and entered another. Few economic systems can have been as cruelly deceptive as the one saddled on black Southern sharecroppers. They leased their land from whites, who also paid for the "furnishin' "-feed, fertilizer, tools-they needed to farm. At harvesttime sharecroppers...
...bureaucracy, and urban refugee population are also impressive obstacles to postwar reconstruction. According to the Vietnam Resource Center in Cambridge, "What the Saigon regime and the World Bank have in mind is not a nationally-based economy but a foreign-based one...where labor and natural resources such as timber and sea-products can be cheaply exploited." The army bureaucracy and refugees could then serve as pools of cheap labor...
Irate Congressmen. Instead, Frome preferred to play it tough and tendentious. He criticized timber companies, highway builders and strip miners. Frequently he used his column to lobby against legislation that might be potentially destructive to the environment. One of his notable victories came in 1970, when he helped defeat a bill which would have given timber cutting priority over recreational and other uses for national forests...