Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like their forebears', the violinmakers' first problem is finding the right wood. Some of it comes from the Italian Tyrol, some from the beams of 16th century buildings-fir for resonant belly and side walls, hard maple for back, neck and scroll. It is seasoned for 25 to 300 years. Testing for quality, the fathers twisted and tapped the wood as they worked it; their sons now listen with electronic ears and compute its acoustical properties. The instrument is put together with glue-also mixed for its resonant qualities-and at that point it is as mechanically perfect...
...cistern which is below the rampart, on the east side, in a place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense in cassia wood ... In the pit near by, towards the north, near the grave, in a hole opening to the north, there is a copy of this book with explanations, measurements and all details...
...lumbermen will pry valuable industrial products from more than 2 billion bd. ft. of left-over wood (enough for 200,000 homes) that would have been abandoned ten years...
...timberland prices soared (up as much as 1,700% in 18 years). Many companies have also diversified to make full use of their tim ber reserves, e.g., western alder, long bypassed when redwood and Douglas fir forests were logged solely for lumber, is now widely cut for wood pulp...
...same time, the small, one-product companies that once ruled the woods are yielding to corporate Paul Bunyans. To make the most of every shaving and splinter, lumber companies are branching into paper and pulp production; paper companies are pushing into lumber manufacture. Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips...