Word: cumberlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end one witness produced canceled Erie Basin checks for $18,000 made out to the Cumberland Lumber Co. One of them was endorsed by "A. J. May, President." No lumber had ever been delivered, no records for the company were available. But its home office was in Prestonburg, Ky., Andy May's home town...
Alvin York, World War I hero, drilled again, this time for oil, and struck it a few miles from his home in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains. He said that he was getting 13 barrels an hour; the state geologist said that the well would not make Hero York a millionaire, but he might become "materially wealthier...
...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
Roly-poly (219 Ibs.) George Allen is a regular card. One of his favorite stories is about the time he was captain of a Cumberland University football team, beaten 222-to-0 by Georgia Tech. George likes to say that he made Cumberland's best run -"I only got thrown for a five-yard loss...
.../ears ago the Order officially turned Kent over to its alumni
(though a Holy Cross Father, Bill Chalmers, re mained as headmaster).
But even without it the monks keep busy: