Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after day, week after week, a warm haze hung over the states of the northeastern U.S. Maple and sumac painted the hills and shed bright, crackling drifts of leaves. Offshore, the sea was blue. Streams ran gently or dried up, and at dusk the smell of dust and wood smoke perfumed the air. No rainclouds obscured the sun or the bright autumn moon. Then, last week, nature exacted her tribute...
...French zone is the" smallest and worst run of the four. "The French have cut more wood in two years than the Germans cut in 50," said a German forester. A businessman in Coblenz told me: "The French had a wonderful opportunity here. We had had our noses full of Hitler. They wanted the Rhineland, and we wanted something different from what we had. They could have won us. But their tactics have lost us completely...
...mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out spotting likely trees for the trade. Last week, his boss, a New Yorker named Willis ("Christmas Tree") Clark, checked into the Cornwallis Inn at Kent-ille, got set for the cutting of 125,000 balsams for the city market...
...Communist money, Sam Wood had his own idea of how they collected it. He referred to a Henry Wallace meeting in Hollywood, said that "Katharine Hepburn appeared and they collected $87,000. You don't think that money is going to the Boy Scouts...
Chairman J. Parnell Thomas seemed delighted. At the end of the free-swinging scene he complimented Sam Wood: "You really laid it on the line. You've got guts. If every other man had the same courage you have, we wouldn't have to worry about Communism." Unmoved by the opening lines of the drama were several of the accused and suspected writers and directors, sitting in the audience. They would get a chance to speak their lines later...