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Cosmopolis is only one of many logged-out forest towns throughout the U.S. where lumber companies are stirring into new life, inspired by the technological changes that have put the long-depressed forest industry up among the nation's fastest-growing industries, along with oil and chemicals. Woodsmen have learned that lumber is among the least of the tree's end products. The industry now squeezes marketable products from as much as 75% of the tree v. 30% in 1935. It has developed more than 4,000 wood derivatives, which are being used in an ever-widening range...
...three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs and lungs held up, they eventually reached the mal (finish line) more than ten miles away...
...whole. In 1952, things didn't go that way. Because of the fierce pulling and tugging between Taft and Ike supporters, the party bigwigs couldn't agree; they had to let the conventions decide. Last week 1,813 business and professional men, farmers and flannel-shirted woodsmen gathered at Bangor to do their unusual duty...
...carpenters had spent the night making a simple coffin of oak cut from the forests nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across...
Birds and animals had a hard time of it. Long Island gulls and ducks, their shoreline food sources cut off by piled-up ice, took to swiping baby trout from the running-water ponds of the state's fish hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor. In Wisconsin, woodsmen swore that snowshoe hares limited their traveling to man-made paths...