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...introduction to the regulations contains an elastic clause which says that any organization that wants an exception made for a certain rule or is in doubt about a rule's interpretation should consult the office of the Associate Dean (Watson...
Expendable Resources. The timber industry had undergone a revolution: logging in 1950 would send an oldtime Wobbly or an oldtime "bull o' the woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses...
...Questions. At press conferences, Tassman Todd never questions Secretary of State Dean Acheson, though he does question State, Department press aides Mike McDermott and Lincoln White. He never goes "upstairs" (as do most correspondents) to consult State Department officials about specific problems or individual stories...
Brynteson, chairman of an undergraduate committee to revise the Council constitution, proposed that the terms of Council members run from spring term to spring term rather than fall to fall as they do now, in order that each new Council may have the opportunity to consult with former members before they graduate...
...industry was still groggy from the effects of the depression: Scanlon's company was nearly bankrupt, and he was afraid it would fold, leaving the men without jobs. So, with some persuasion, he induced the company's president to go with him to S.W.O.C. headquarters in Pittsburgh to consult Clinton Golden, at that time vice-president of the steel-workers...