Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long-winded, impatient hero of the Revolution, whose hatred of property is so intense that...
...Judah and the terrifying Lion of Britain, U. S. cotton and copper producers have enjoyed a brisk business with Italy. According to Capital observers, if the Presidential definition of "implements of war" were enlarged to its logical boundaries to include such raw materials, Washington would become a pandemonium of log rolling, back-scratching and lobbying which would knock the neutrality program into a cocked helmet...
Indiana: city water main extension in Decatur; demolition of school building in La Porte County; construction of artificial lake in St. Bernice; construction of city athletic field in Mishawaka; construction of various low log dams in Morgan County; ditch repairing in Miami County; city library book repairs in Terre Haute...
...putting six million men to work by Labor Day than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark and Manhattan he growled: "The President said he wanted me to take the job. I did not want to take it. ... I was called in today to the log cabin on Pennsylvania Avenue and told I should accept the job. I'm a soldier and I do what I'm told to do. ... It feels like hell...
...point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...