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...Timber wolf...
Looking for an offbeat investment prospect? Well, consider a St. Paul company called American Hoist & Derrick. A typically depressed heavy-equipment manufacturer, Amhoist lost $21.8 million last year and is expected to wind up in the red again this year. Two of its primary markets, the petroleum and timber industries, remain sluggish. Its stock has been sagging in the bull market and now sells for $15, vs. a high of $26, reached...
...that could flood the world's markets. The axis of this second thrust is simple: to employ enough of China's surplus population at low enough wages to export Chinese manufactures to earn back from the rest of the world ? above all, from America ? the food, the timber, the cotton, the edible oils, the meat to keep the people above the starvation line...
...grass-roots strength. Under the asset-management process, the Administration had put up FOR SALE signs on 2.5 million acres ruled by Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Though none of the acreage is national park land, a number of tracts were used extensively by vacationers, hunters, fishermen, timber and mineral companies and cattle ranchers. "The program scared everybody into thinking vast amounts of the public domain were going to be sold," says an Interior Department official. "It created a fire storm you wouldn't believe...
Trouble was, George Brett likes the feel of callused skin against unpolished timber, so the T-85s he orders by the cord from the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. in Kentucky are unstained, pure white bolts of mountain ash, legendary Louisville Sluggers. In order to keep his grip without gloves, the Kansas City third baseman takes tar and slathers every bat like a small town honoring a scoundrel. About the middle of the club, maybe a little higher up than the label, Brett cultivates a sticky reserve for when his palms get especially clammy, like when Goose Gossage is pitching...