Word: cordwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flemington, Sheriff John H. Curtiss packed newsmen into the stuffy courtroom like cordwood, accepting "donations" of $5 and $10 for seats...
...newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...
Tell again about the cordwood...
...quick was the line he took when the National City Bank branches in Japan were threatened after a rumor that their managers were guilty of "photographic espionage" (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932), and when Japanese hoodlums set out to destroy the Singer Sewing Machine branch office at Yokohama with cordwood clubs (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). In both cases Ambassador Grew was at the Foreign Office almost before its officials knew that trouble had broken. In both cases, by reminding the Japanese with courteous firmness what protection their property in the U. S. has always enjoyed, Ambassador Grew was able...