Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Bowman got to Tampico a local group had already started a steam laundry, so he bought a little motor boat to pull barges. When this enterprise failed, he and another young American chugged off to Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...
With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should one lie log-still, in the hope that he will merely sniff and go on about his business? One of such opposite courses must be considerably healthier than the other. Seriously, TIME, which...
With this backhanded admission, the key log was removed from the jam that had kept Congress tied up since February. Several weeks ago, Congressional leaders recognized that it would be impossible to pass the bill for six new Supreme Court Justices, but the President refused to believe them. They gave out hints of compromise; Franklin Roosevelt refused to bat an eye. They deliberately delayed action on the bill hoping he would see his mistake. Finally, giving up hope of changing him, they began to plan on letting the Court bill die without action. When this was reported in the press...
...college presidents started their careers so unpromisingly as James Madison Wood, who was born in a log cabin at Hartville, Mo. 61 years ago. At the age of 21, when he married Hartville's Lela Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens...