Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights his way out of bristling Nottingham castle; gets poll-thwacked off a foot-log by doughty Little John (Alan Hale, a veteran of the Fairbanks Robin Hood) and ducked by puddingy Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette), takes the huffy-puffy High Sheriff of Nottingham (Melville Cooper) neatly into camp; betters Prince John's best in archery, intrigue and repartee...
...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...
...scale U. S. logging goes back a little more than a century but covers a lot of ground. Last week Stewart Holbrook covered a lot of the ground in a breezy volume called Holy Old Mackinaw which placed most emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over...
...smoke on the water off Samoa. And then the Avocet, following streaks of oil floating on the long ocean swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating desk, a pair of trousers. The debris, blown to bits, riddled with holes and imbedded with duralumin powder indicated a terrific mid-air explosion with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive...
Ayres-Three weeks ago Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, much-touted economist of Cleveland Trust Co., told a convention of his fellows at Atlantic City that the "key log" of the economic jam was the public utility situation (TIME, Jan. 10). Other reasons for the present depression, continued Economist Ayres, which he last week gave Senator Byrnes, included excessive inventories last spring, rising prices due to rearmament programs abroad, fears of labor difficulties, possibly the bonus payment in 1936, possibly some fear of inflation. Mr. Ayres's predictions: that the depression should reach bottom in the first half...