Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wind. District Ranger Lou Geil, 43, the fire boss, had no time to waste talking; the fire was storming close to the park's Wilsonia Village and one of its most precious preserves: a great grove with thousands of magnificent sequoias, including the General Grant tree, the second largest on earth (267 ft. high and 107 ft. in circumference).* Geil mobilized every man possible, laid miles of pipeline overnight, pumped continuous sprays of water for 24 hours on smoking trees to save the village and the enormous grove...
Then research scientists and wood technicians unlocked some of its secrets, and the western hemlock emerged as a Cinderella tree. It has become one of the finest sources of fibers for papermaking...
Crown Zellerbach. which hopes that research done in its new lab will turn up more Cinderellas in the forest, is not the only company trying to find new products from the more than 50% of a tree now wasted. Almost every month new products come out of the laboratories of lumber and paper companies. Among them...
Despite the freedom they enjoy, Jaunswar women are in revolt against polyandry. More and more are preferring a plethora of lovers to a profusion of husbands, and the number of dhyantys is increasing. A certain sophistication has been brought to Jaunswar Bawar by the invasion of immigrant laborers, mostly tree cutters from the plains, who have a knowing way of asking a girl whether she is a ranty or a dhyanty. But, although some dhyantys in some villages have become little better than prostitutes, the real basis of the revolt is an embarrassment many Jaunswar women have recently discovered...
Savoir-Faire. In Detroit. Arnold L. Humphrey, 20, got a ten-day jail sentence for reckless driving after police spotted him perched on the door of his convertible with his legs dangling above the street, while he steered with one hand, worked the brake and the accelerator with a tree branch held in the other...