Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice, and in return bring in the 20th century...
...Downrange in the South Atlantic, the recovery ship Timber Hitch stood by as Cape Canaveral launched an Atlas 700 miles into space. Seventy-six minutes and 5,000 miles after the blastoff, Timber Hitch plucked from the water a cylindrical instrument package ejected by the Atlas nose cone. Later, it was packed off to the States in a trombone case (it just happens to fit snugly within the shaped confines of a sliphorn...
...self-contained empire. Imperially big, rich and varied, it is the land where Hiawatha played, where the French voyageurs sailed even before the Plymouth colony was founded, where conservative Germans settled on the smiling farmlands of the fertile south, and the Scandinavian Paul Bunyans came to cut the timber and mine the ore of the rugged north. It was here that Henry Ford, messiah of the machine, swung the U.S. mass-production revolution on his assembly lines and broke the bonds of the workingman's poverty by instituting the $5 eight-hour...
While others were noisily campaigning across the nation last week, the Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe quietly held an election of its own in the rolling lands and rough mountains of Montana. Among the victors: Johnny Woodenlegs of Lame Deer, Mont., re-elected President; John Stands in the Timber, John Kills on Top Sr., August Spotted Elk, William Hollowbreast, Clarence Spotted Wolf, members of the tribal council...
...Pacific's'Cheatham calls the Shanks deal "just a way of helping the company." The Journal also turned up the fact that Cheatham, in addition to all the other suits he wears, is co-owner of Oregon's Old Dominion Co., an investment firm that owns timber that Georgia-Pacific has contracted to cut under a deal like Shanks's. Carrol Shanks maintains that "there is not the slightest violation of ethics" about his deal. Nonetheless, the furor that greeted the publicity has already taught him that, for people who live in glass houses, discretion should...