Word: crosscut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical fraternity man who loves good fellowship. He joined the Masons with his father in 1924 because, he says, "It was a crosscut of a wonderful group of citizenry." As enthusiastic about Masonry as he is about everything he has ever taken up, he went up through Scottish Rite with his father beside him, became a 32nd degree Mason, then went up the other route to Knight Templar. In 1926 he "crossed the hot sands," i.e., took the initiation into the Order of the Mystic Shrine...
...Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...
...Cascade Mountains in Oregon's Willamette (rhymes with damn it) National Forest, Engineer Flynn's power saws last week stood a conclusive test. Called in to fight a forest fire, the Forest Service took along two power saws, 90 fallers armed with axes and ordinary crosscut saws, pitted them against each other...
...trees grown hard from standing) in the path of the fire, knocked them over like tenpins, one every eight minutes. (Average thickness: 44 in.) Regular fallers, working in crews of two, averaged one snag every two hours. After 14 hours of fire fighting, the score stood: 90 men with crosscut saws, 320 snags; six men with power saws, 220 snags...