Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well above Sharecroppers. In the country reconstruction is more advanced than in the cities. The average village is at least one-third rebuilt, with warm, clean log houses well thatched and chinked. The Ukraine is Russia's richest agricultural region; in food and housing its peasants now have a living standard "well below that of an Iowa farmer, but well above that of a Southern sharecropper." This spring the planting was 80% of prewar normal, but drought has already almost halved the expected-and desperately needed-1946 crop...
...Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...
...Commencement Day, 1944, when seniors were leaving, the class of 1919 was having a colorful spree in Lowell courtyard, and the class of 1948 was entering. He also had a hot time Christmas of that year when someone forgot to open the chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps why a striped silk shirt did not pass for a formal jacket...
...stumbles worst when he attempts to lay socialized industry and the human heart in the same downy bed. "If we build a network of electric power," cries Hero Telegin on the last page, ". . . America can watch our smoke!" "Yes," cries Heroine Dasha, "we'll live in a log cabin with large windows, beautifully clean, with pearls of resin coming out of the wood. In the winter we'll have a huge fire flaming on the hearth...
...eleven years (four of them in Army service at Fort Richardson, near Anchorage), he had been appalled to find as many as 18 natives living chockablock in one small, stove-heated log cabin. He knew that T.B. would never be checked unless cases were isolated. He also knew that the natives' resistance to the white man's plague had been greatly lessened by their narrow, unbalanced diet, by the introduction of white men's fire water, soft drinks, candy and carbohydrates...