lumberman
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The last major project developed by lumberman and real estate entrepreneur C.D.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020
And the street where 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, son of a prominent lumberman, was kidnapped in 1935.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
"Good lecture, that," muttered the lumberman when the two were at the bin.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2015
Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013
Forest Service infuriated lumbermen by sharply curtailing the amount of timber that they may cut in national forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a general strike is called among the lumbermen of their small Oregon town, the Stampers go right on working.
From Time Magazine Archive
Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
