Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
...five points of criticism of the structure and personnel of Congress. He pointed out that under present practice Congressional legislation is dilatory, tends to be amended until it is useless, that Congress does not consider the effect domestic legislation will have on the nation's foreign relations; and attacked "log-rolling," and the vicious attitude of certain Congressional committees toward administrators...
From the viewpoint of practical Washington politics, it is paradoxical that reciprocal trade agreements are signed with Czechoslovakia that put Czech shoes in competition with Massachusetts shoes, while this same type economic fillip is denied a country linked to the U. S. by tradition and two wars. As the log-rolling proceeds, Congress is unwilling to sour the sugar-beet bloc, but is perfectly willing to pat an infant-nation on the head and set it loose with one foot tied. The Bell Bill tariff exemption must be extended indefinitely lest the Philippine experiment, pride of this country's colonial...
Despite these obstacles, the number of unsatisfied applicants slowly decreases. The back-log is 100 lower than at this time last month. Of the 2000 applications submitted thus far, 563 have been successfully terminated. Another 800 have been cancelled or not renewed; it is assumed by the Housing Office that most of these have found satisfactory homes through outside means...
...dissatisfied, yet satisfied that his dissatisfaction was balanced by that of the others, may have been a brand new idea to the Russians. At first, the smallest and vaguest deals were blown up into diplomatic triumphs. The N. Y. Herald Tribune joyously reported "the first break in the log-jam." What was it? Merely that "a private meeting appointed a committee to study a plan to postpone the [Italian] colonial question for a year...