Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supply train through a Russett barricade, finally makes her believe in it by dynamiting the jam while the personnel of both lumber camps enjoy a free-for-all fight on the river bank. Good shots: An expert logger nonchalantly retrieving a water bottle from the notch in a fir tree, just as the notch closes when the tree falls; the timber country color photographed from the air, with fir-covered mountains spread out to blue horizons in the pattern of enormous deep-green surf...
...cocoa's rise, as for that of more staple commodities, the obvious and basic explanation is increased consumption. But there have also been special reasons for the hot cocoa market. Unlike rubber and tin (see p. 59) cocoa production is not amenable to cartel agreement. The cocoa tree, which was discovered in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, is a sensitive plant, takes from six to eight years of careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers...
...nights after Christmas, the colored lights on three large fir trees on a sweeping lawn in the exclusive Point Defiance residential section of Tacoma, Wash., glowed festively through a steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...
...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
...they are cleared. The altimeter hand is late, for we are 1,000 feet ahead of it. At 10,000 feet I can make out land and water. Lloyd's Neck looks like the head of a dinosaur and the next peninsula is like a giant cypress tree...