Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile Panama-Santiago route, the U. S. pays Pan-American Airways practically $2 per mile; not enough to cover flying operations, but enough for a sound operating back-log...
...Sardis, Miss., in 1921, 500 men and women collected a mass of leaves. To a log in the middle, they fastened Henry Lowry. When his feet began to roast they brought his wife and small daughter to see how Lowry strained to swallow hot ashes...
...likes to sing and dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck nearer his foot than the log. Pauline Uzcudun, sister of Paulino, is also a Basque woodchopper and weighs 220 Ib. Uzcudun likes to have women around his camp, big and little, relatives...
...stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise from its offering quotation, Berliners felt confident that a log-mark share would soon be selling at 200 or 250 marks. Then, unexpectedly, came the announcement that instead of selling the new issue by popular subscription. Mr. Ford was allowing it all to go to I. G. Farbenindustrie, Germany's famed Dye Trust. Furthermore...
...newsgathering shadows. Last week he succeeded in motoring without them to Catoctin Furnace, Md., to fish peacefully in Hunting Creek with Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey. All that the newsgatherers learned was that the President caught a pound-and-a-half trout, inspected a site for a ten-room log cabin, ate a picnic supper under the trees with Mrs. Hoover. After dusk he drove back to Washington. His shadows politely rebuked...