Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idiot boy Bub Quigley frightens and revolts Amy with his drooling and twig-chewing. In a sudden funk over the death of a cow, Amy herself races crazily through the bush one night and has a miscarriage...
...from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
...Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with bush-happy prospectors with fat bankrolls and big appetites for excitement. Job seekers, claim speculators, boomers arrived on every train, sifted in through the fire escapes of the Harmonic Hotel to bed down in bathtubs and corridors after all the rooms were taken...
Most interesting of the teleplays was Man on Spikes, presented on NBC's Goodyear Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It was the story of an aging baseball player who is good enough for the majors, but fated by managerial decision never to get out of the bush leagues. The play had moments of power and persuasiveness when the ballplayer and his wife revolted against their fate. At these moments, Man on Spikes seemed to be on the verge of saying something important not merely about baseball, but about big enterprise in general and the enterprise of life itself...
...Brien rode an empty coal car into Nova Scotia to take a job as driver and trainer for a River Hebert horseman. He weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet, and looked like a shy weakling. But he had a way with horses. Soon he was driving and winning on bush tracks in New England and the Maritimes. He took a broken-down, eleven-year-old gelding named Dudey Patch and patched him up so well that he became a Canadian champion. On the little country tracks around the U.S. and Canada in the early 1940s, it was a common occurrence...