Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Ruback of the National Park Service took his best men to join forces with a crew from the Davey Tree Expert Co., low bidders (about $9,000) on the 120-mile moving job. They arrived with backhoe, crane, tractor trailer, chain, wire and a burlap tarp made in Baltimore just for this tree. They were met with 90 qts. of Mrs. Myers' homemade soup, dozens of sandwiches, gallons of coffee and enough neighborly warmth to discourage winter...
Each branch of the spruce was tied to the trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate. There were vegetable soup and chicken corn soup, hot dogs and chocolate cake, green salad, and pears and peaches canned by Mrs. Myers. The neighbors came out every day to watch as their old friend the spruce was gussied up to go to the city...
...Liberty. This Thursday (Dec. 14) Jimmy Carter plans to throw the switch and let the lights shine forth. He will surely say something about good will toward men as he gazes at the tree. He could take his text from Mrs. Myers, Bill Ruback and his men, the crew from Davey's and that tiny corner of York that gave us our national Christmas tree...
...Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order of the day," says Moore, who is. widely known as an activist priest. His "edifice complex," as churchmen dub it, will use a very special construction crew. Workers will be hired from Harlem and trained to cut stone in the medieval fashion under tutelage of a master builder imported from Britain...
Along with Washington, six other crews will compete this year, Parker said, including two Egyptian police crews, a Belgian crew, an Irish crew, the University of Vancouver crew, and a crew from England...