Word: logging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago was a muddy little log town on the edge of the plains when 17-year-old John Stephen Wright stopped there with his father in 1832, and opened The Prairie Store to outfit pioneers who were heading west. Two years later young Wright had made a small fortune in real estate, was worth $200,000. At 20 he owned a warehouse, dock, 7,000 acres along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. He knew nothing about farming but he thought farmers ought to learn more about it. So in 1841 he started The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer...
Traditionally, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Northwest loggers come out of the woods. The rainswept camps in the hills close down; over the Jogging railroads that curve through the logged-off land, over the pitted roads, the fallers, buckers, choker setters, whistle punks hurry to the cities or for a visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...very special kind of soldier-so special that his enemies nicknamed him El Soldado Desconocido, the unknown soldier. His specialty was persuasion. Instead of meeting rebels in frontal conflict, he would take an airplane, fly straight to their camp, sit them down on a log and pacify them with sympathetic conversation and promises-which, surprisingly enough for a Mexican general, he kept...
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