Word: chopping
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...ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable...
...that the biggest freighter that ever sank in the Great Lakes could be salvaged. No private concern was interested. The War Department, anxious to get the channel cleared, made a deal with Roen. The deal: if he could raise the ship, he could have her; if not, he must chop her off at his own expense to allow 35 feet of clear water over her. Roen took the gamble: by spending $300,000 he might get a hulk that could be rebuilt into a $1,000,000 ship...
...fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every bay and inlet boats of all descriptions lay smashed, high & dry in streets, backyards and fields. Tens of thousands of trees were down; many a householder had to chop his way out. Some 300,000 telephones were out of service; and for many miles the power lines festooned the streets. For days many sections were without electricity. Roads were blocked and trains stalled. Apple and tobacco crops in Connecticut and New Hampshire lay ruined on the ground...
...hour. From Oak Bluffs you can branch out to any part of historical Martha's Vineyard. You will have five hours or so before the steamer returns from Nantucket. A bus runs over to Edgartown on the southern end of the island, and to Vineyard Haven and West Chop. You can also cross to the extreme corner of the island to the Indian Reservation at Gay Head. A chat with boat builder Manuel Swartz, whose shop is only a stone's throw from the Edgartown Yacht Club, is worth the price of the whole excursion...
...Treasury has revoked permission for SKF Industries to send dividends to Sweden. But SKF can get along without them very well, as it now has upwards of $50,000,000 of cash on hand. Washington buzzed with talk that the U.S. will chop off the exports of SKF Industries to Latin America, which have been used to retain SKF's markets there. But these amount to a measly .2% of the production of SKF industries...