What is "sawmills"

Usage examples of "sawmills".

The previous year, for the first time, the sales of timber pit-props from Sean's sawmills to the gold mines of the Transvaal had exceeded two million pounds sterling.

The first of these revolved around Worldwide Sawmills, a rather large concern.

All I know is that the man at Worldwide Sawmills has been tipped that one of the big boys will give him a ring soon.

The Gray Spider's man in charge of Worldwide Sawmills had disposed of another part of the company.

Sean Courtney's business interests flourished and multiplied, new sawmills, new plantations, elevation to new offices, the chairman of the first Building Society in Southern Africa, director of Union Castle Shipping Lines, head of the Government Commission on Natural Resources.

How many men are employed by Natal Sawmills, old Sean, twenty thousand?

Or he might dismiss his chauffeur and have Mark drive the Rolls out to one of the sawmills, or to a board meeting in the city, sitting up front beside him on the journey and reminiscing about those days in France, or going further back to the time before Mark was born, enjoying Mark's engrossing interest in talks of gold-prospecting and ivory-hunting in the great wilderness beyond the Limpopo River in the north.

From where he sat he could see the sawmills and timber yards adjoining the railway yards down in the town, and once again he felt the warm contentment of a life not thrown to waste, the glow of achievement and endeavour rewarded.

To do this he has driven taxis, delivered sermons, peddled fish, buck danced, worked carnivals as a barker, operated bulldozers, loaded carriages and hauled logs at sawmills, feigned drunkenness, and pretended to be an idiot.

They'd come to the sawmills, and stay six months and then just drift away, and when they came into my small town on weekends and got liquored up to fight and saw only one policeman, they just thought they could run him down.

And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.

It wasn't until after they left Modlin behind them that Koljaiczek lost his blush, which was not a blush of shame, but the lingering glow of the sawmills he had set on fire.

Evidence was gathered in a number of sawmills and in the town halls of both men's native places: Wranka had first seen the light of day in Tuchel, Koljaiczek in Thorn.

Both of them had learned to handle wood the hard way, working in sawmills and timber camps around Providence Base.

I also found out why there were always job openings in sawmills when the job involves the green chain.