lumberman
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The last major project developed by lumberman and real estate entrepreneur C.D.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
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
Of his two companions, Cain continued for more than twenty years as an engineer on the same road, while Murphy built up a prosperous business as a lumberman in Atlanta.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
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
The system made sound business sense to most lumbermen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrimpers from Southport on the coast and lumbermen from west Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains turned up in Raleigh to root for the Wolfpack.
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
