One grandfather took a mountain and logged the trees off it into a lumber fortune, while another constructed the first canals that irrigated the state's vast Central Valley, turning it into a hub of American agriculture.
-A newfie walks into a lumber yard and says, "I's building an 'ouse bye' and needs me some a dat der too be far" The clerks says "You mean 2 by 4?", the newfie says "Yes bye', dat's da stuff".
Imagine walking in the forest, and abruptly stumbling into a lumbering Brachiosaurus.
In less than six years, the show has transformed from cheap daytime filler into a lumbering, fearsomely ubiquitous cultural presence.
If Boeing is right and Airbus is wrong, the A3XX would quickly turn into a lumbering and underused elephant on many routes.
The main draw of Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw is the metamorphosis undergone by Jake Gyllenhaal, who spent five months in training to transform himself into a lumbering, mumbling slab of battered meatloaf.
There's a decent punk song, blessed with a metronomic, krautrock-like rhythm and more witty lyrics, at the heart of (S HE SAID/(S HE SAID, but it just keeps going on and on: slowing into a lumbering, proggy riff, devolving into a hushed ambient interlude with pained vocals and cooing harmonies, squandering its power as it goes.
Relatives said Sperl, who had written and acted in television court programs in the 1950s, went into business, including owning a lumber yard in South Dakota, after leaving the marshal's office.
We'd shoved off at 11 30 a.m. on historic Sawtooth Ridge, riding a hard-packed snowmobile trail known as the "Fiberboard Freeway," one of hundreds of Gold Rush-era logging roads cut through the Sierra that once turned Truckee into the epicenter of a lumber empire.
The Detroit Free Press reports that mayor Dave Bing's group executive for planning and facilities, Karla Henderson, is close to finalizing a sale that would allow the Southfield-based financier John Hantz to transform 175 acres of vacant east side lots into a commercial lumber farm.
The elder Mr. Pinault, 66, is a self-made tycoon who parlayed a lumber business into a retailing empire.
