lumberman
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A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020
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
They unanimously agreed it should be Joey Webber, 37, a gregarious, dynamic lumberman by trade hailing from the Oregon town of Philomath.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2017
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
"And how about the coal," cried Barr to the lumberman before he drew his team to a stop.
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
In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, lumbermen have a new approach and a new program that promises to produce more trees than ever before.
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
