Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
GOOD NIGHT, SHERIFF-Harrison R. Sfeeves-Random House ($2). Dr. Patterson, insurance-company investigator, goes to the log and deer country where Agnes Earlie, wife of a local doctor, has been shot with a high-power, steel-jacketed rifle bullet. Finding no motive in $20,000 insurance, Patterson becomes Dr. Earlie's guest, quietly garners enough circumstantial evidence to convict the Doctor or any one of several people who loved and respected Mrs. Earlie. A first-rate story, it is short on blood, long on plot and psychology...
...MacMillan had been with the Government before. Last year, first as $1-a-year timber expert, then as head of the Wartime Requirements Board, he cut through red tape like a buzz saw through a log. He studied Canada's lagging war effort, submitted a vast reorganization plan to Clarence D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply. But his methods were too direct; before his plan went through, he was eased out. Minister Howe said Mac Millan had been "sabotaged" by jealous politicians, that whenever the Government decided to give him a freer hand, Lumberman MacMillan would come back...
...Corps, left his laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical College, formerly known as Yale-in-China...
Summer and winter, old Ajax takes a few days off to spend at his log cabin in the Michigan woods. There he goes fishing makes hot cakes for his companions, in winter still occasionally chops a hole in the ice to take...