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 ...uh...I might have fudged a little... But before the Dutch Elm Blight the great elms were "admirably suited for the manufacture of cooperage, kitchenette furniture, flooring, baskets, vehicle parts, and woodenware." according to Ellwood S. and J. George Harrar in their book " Guide To Southern Trees". So don't you all go thinking I made up that french part too... 
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"The wood of American elm is strong, split resistant and durable, and has been used for furniture, paneling, boat construction and crates. The fruits are important wildlife food, especially favored by ruffed grouse, quail and partridge." http://floridata.com/ref/u/ulmu_ame.cfmNumerous sites on Google about the use of elm boards in furniture making. It's an NPR quiz, so, hey, give 'em some leverage, even with Dutch Elm Disease being problematical. By the way, if anyone's ever in Richmond, do check out the Dooley Estate, free to the public, with some of the most splendiferous, living examples of American elms anybody has ever set eyes on. Edit:In fact, close to a thousand hits of the use of Almus americana in furniture making on Google. Here's another: http://newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/200-299/nb279.htm
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Ok I confess... Will and Liane from NPR called and said that I was a crook and that the real answer is... the group of trees know as the conifers. And that a particular species of conifer are called cone firs. And the products of cone firs are fir cones. Sometimes life can be cruel when life is so simple. 
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Rearrange the letters, and you'll name the kind of tree it is plus something this tree produces.
Boy, did I misunderstand the question. I thought you only had to rearrange the letters once to get the two answers.
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rearrange the letters once to get the two answers.
That's what I thought. Like conifer gives us fir and cone. Cept that's backwards.
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As an aside, what is the deal with public/ community media ( television and radio especially) in the US? How is it funded? Who watches it? We are required by law in Britain to own a television licence which funds the BBC stations, and the BBC has the largest audience share ( but then with only five channels the competition is not exactly beating down the door)on both tv and radio, there are no commercials on BBC channels. I get the impression that the commercial stations rule the roost over there, will someone enlighten me?
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Whatever anyone tells ya about it now... in 12 years (or so) "Public (aka broadcast) TV, as we know it, will no longer be so.
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We are required by law in Britain to own a television licence which funds the BBC stations,
Wha-at??? Are you serious? What if you don't even OWN a television? Commercial-free does sound good, though.
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Public radio/television is funded by, in something vaguely resembling order of importance, listener-sponsors, corporate sponsorship and government funding.
The listener-sponsor funding comes from individual donations that are solicited in thrice yearly pledge drives during which they spend about twenty minutes out of every hour, usually in two ten minute segments on the hour and half hour. These drives generally last about a week to ten days.
The corporate sponsorship results in brief announcements during station breaks for the local sponsorships and during the intro or outro to a show for nation-wide sponsorships. These announcements sometimes verge on commercials; the information given can be more than a mere announcement of the name of the sponsor.
Government funding, as I understand it, is dependent on the amount raised from listener-sponsors. This funding has been decreasing in the past few years because of trickle-down tax cuts.
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>"Public (aka broadcast) TV, as we know it, will no longer be so.
what musick is on about here, I think, is that while commercial stations once "ruled the roost", cable outlets have eroded their shares near to the vanishing point. 12 years could be optimistic. ("broadcast", or over-the-air stations include commercial + public)
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