Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having voted on the income tax sections of its billion-dollar revenue bill (TIME, May 30), the Senate last week continued its long wrangle over inserting tariff provisions. Oil and coal duties had been adopted. Log-rolling logic and gentlemen's agreements now necessitated doing something for lumber and copper. Nebraska's Norris tried to break in with a revival of the Export Debenture to benefit farm products, insisted that some form of farm aid must go into the bill if tariff features were being added. He was brushed aside by a vote of 46-10-23. Lumber...
...bill's proposed tariffs on oil, coal, lumber and copper spoiled its non-partisan character. Five Democrats of the Finance Committee signed a minority report flaying the log-rolling which put such duties into the measure. Democratic committeemen who did not sign this report were Kentucky's Barkley, proponent of a coal tariff; Texas' Connally and Oklahoma's Gore, proponents of a duty on oil; and Utah's King, copper...
Several days ago appeared The Log, comic magazine of the U. S. Naval Academy. It also is a parody on TIME even including the cover design, contents, style. Be sure to read it; it is interesting and cleverly written...
...Massie did not even kill Kahahawai." But Prosecutor Kelley in his cross-examination was not able to change a jot or tittle of Lieutenant Massie's story. The officer told how he learned of his own actions : "Mrs. Fortescue said I stood there like a bump on a log. Later they put me in a chair. Jones. . . said I acted like a damn fool...
...takes a month to make a penny pencil, six months for a 10? pencil. Cedar wood is best. When the cedar forests of the South began to be exhausted the pencil-makers frantically bought cedar fences and log cabins but now the West's cedar stands, although inferior in quality, are considered adequate. A good pencil could draw a line from 35 to 70 mi. long before it was worn out. One of the best of recent pencil years was 1927. Lead Pencil Institute reported 6,100,000 gross of pencils valued at $14,477,000 sold that year...