Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a great walnut cleaned of its meat, it lies there a shell-no timber, no coal, no petroleum, no farm land really farmable." Twenty-five years ago, people first moved in numbers to Breathitt, to cut trees for railroad ties. The hills were stripped, the timber business expired, floods washed the topsoil off the farms."Now one farmer after another has given it- up as a bad job, has even deserted land he owns...
...active management of Pillsburys. Recent resignation of Treasurer Alfred Fiske Pillsbury (70) left the family without an officer in the company (John Sargent Pillsbury is board chairman). Last week into the treasurership moved 230 Ibs. of fourth-generation Pillsbury. Phil Pillsbury quietly took over his father's old walnut chair and rolltop desk, settled into the Pillsbury executive groove...
...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...
Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...