Word: log
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engineer Crowe has changed the physical landscape perhaps more than any other individual in history. Born 61 years ago of American parents in Trenholmville, Quebec, he grew up playing tag across the log jams of Maine's great Ossippe River. By the time he graduated from the University of Maine in 1905 with a B.S. in civil engineering, a summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree...
...kingpin of Allagash Plantation, the last Maine outpost on the St. John River before it disappears into Maine's forests, is 6-ft., 190-lb. John Gardner. He could ride a log through white water be fore he was ten. At 20 he could lick every man within 50 miles...
...week, now nearing 40, John Gardner was busy doing something important about the war-born lumber shortage. Helping push toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...
...Main John. The tradition of the river says that they will see ghosts along its bank. Of these by far the most familiar spirit is "The Main John," old John Glasier. He was so nearly drowned during a log drive that he lost his hair when he was 20 and ever afterward wore a bushy brown wig topped by a stovepipe hat. He never doffed either, even when pulling a key log in a bad jam. He seldom talked except to his fabulous horse, Bonnie Doone, who could travel 65 miles in six hours. Later he became one of Canada...
TIME was also the first to make copies available for plane distribution to our troops in North Africa (April 5, 1943), and the first to make copies available for large-scale distribution to our troops in England, thereby breaking a log jam and making it possible for the Army to distribute a number of other magazines in England...