Word: birch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley and Kennecott's Steve Birch, stamp it O.K. This time (with one eye on Washington) they did. Figuring this was just a starter, their customers bought in a rush...
Last week Alvar and Aino Aalto opened their own furniture store (Artek-Pascoe, Inc.) in Manhattan. The Aaltos' plywood sandwiches of maple and birch are shaped in Wisconsin, shipped East for assembly. Colors of the finished pieces of furniture-many of them Aalto-patented-ranged from natural finish through cellulosed red and blue to black. On display also went Aalto-designed screens and glassware...
...later gaunt King Haakon ordered the capitulation of what was left to him of Norway. With Crown Prince Olav and his Government he abandoned a fugitive existence in the fir and birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...white nights" of May, Leningrad is particularly beautiful, with the sky aglow from Arctic lights and the birch trees in the parks shining against the dark earth. Students study at their windows, needing no artificial light; sometimes they go out and stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees...
...better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends...