Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Weyerhaeuser proudly announced that it has developed products to use tree bark, thus utilize the 12% of a Douglas fir log that was formerly thrown away or burned as sawmill boiler fuel...
...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...
...Tree-climbing, air-breathing fish...
...Banker York swung into a rocky lane leading to the highway, he saw a man standing beneath a roadside live oak tree. Then he saw the gun in the man's hand...
...Trib still sees silk-hatted Wall Street bankers lurking around every State Street corner, and redcoats behind every red oak tree. (In 1943, its publisher solemnly told a Detroit audience that after World War I he had helped the U.S. General Staff work out plans to repel an invasion from Canada by 300,000 British regulars.) But even when it is up to no good, Colonel McCormick's xenophobic "World's Greatest Newspaper" is one of the last, anachronistic citadels of muscular personal journalism...