Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...material, especially big, hard-playing fellows. In his fourth year at Tulane he had succeeded in coming by 20 of them, complete with boots and ten-gallon hats. He also beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength and a fullback named Eddie Price, Tulane was ranked...
...juxtaposes a tense chase sequence-alligator v. coon in the swamp water-and the tumultuous pursuit of oil by the monster, man-made drilling derricks which can plunge pipes 14,000 feet into the earth. Throughout this blending of themes, the bonds of humanity between oil riggers and a Cajun boy illumine the recurrent thesis of Flaherty's works: "Mankind is one community...
...Cajun Jack thinks he has licked another enemy of prefabs-depreciation. Under his "package" financing plan, the buyer pays a small amount monthly into a depreciation fund. So he has the cash for painting, etc. when he needs it; the mortgage holder has it also, if he has to take over and fix up the house. To date, Home-Ola has had little trouble with building unions about getting its houses put up, although some cities (Paterson, N.J. and Jackson, Mich.) have barred it because of zoning restrictions. The house can be erected in three days by three or four...
Plenty amid Shortages. A newcomer to prefabs, Cajun Jack is no newcomer to the plywood and lumber industry. He has been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...Cajun Jack Willis formed his C. W. Plywood Co., devised his own weatherproof plywood. During the war, the Air Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...