Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next job, as salesman for a Vermont wood-products company, Marx redesigned a line of wooden toys, and sales soared from 15,000 to 1,500,000 in two years. At the same time, Louis and brother Dave set themselves up as middlemen. Their specialty was to figure out how to cut costs on a 10 toy. Then they would land an order, farm out the manufacturing and pocket the profit. Before he was 21, Lou Marx had served a hitch in the Army, risen from private to sergeant, and, back in civilian clothes, realized his ambition of making...
...Cover) The deacon raised his hand, and Publius Decius stepped through the baptistry door. Standing waist-deep in the pool was Marcus Vasca the wood-seller. He was smiling as Publius waded into the pool beside him. "Credis . . . ?" he asked...
...gone, but there were still plenty left. Daylong Julie played on the wide lawns that ran down to Lake St. Clair. In the winter there was skating on the lake, and in summer the whole family moved to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club, set in a tract of virgin wood and trouty freshet. "She was such a normal little girl," her mother remembers. However, there were suggestions of sensibility. When anybody told ghost stories she was an easy haunt, and to this day she is afraid to put her feet on the floor when she is alone in a room...
...GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy...
Seven men from the Wigg East team will play their Yale counterparts today at 2:30 p.m. in New Haven. The team will consist of Captain Chuck Olin, Tom Cottle, Lyman Wood, Marshall Cogan, Dave Bernstein, Allan Blinkin and Lindsey Coolidge. Dave Weinstock and Dave Gately, although playing every game in the intramural season, will be unable to play in the Eli match...