Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engineer Sosnovkin decided to build his bridge in sections, 18 inches below the river's surface. For many nights his men practiced underwater construction on their side of the river, in a spot out of sight of the Germans. They set log pillars firmly in stone foundations. They clamped crosspieces to the pillars with oiled nuts and bolts. In the freezing water and darkness they did, it all by touch...
...yeoman of the new flagship-now that the Wasp was doomed -scrawled nervous notes in the Quartermaster's Log. At 3:14 he wrote: "Wasp abandoning ship; various ships picking up men." Destroyers had crept near, risking fire from burning gasoline on the water. They saved 90% of the Wasp's crew...
...commendable features such as the collection at the source of the "victory tax" and its refund provisions. But for the times it is dangerously inadequate. When the nation needed a fair, realistic tax bill Congress yielded but little. All the old jockeying and log-rolling accompanying any peace-time legislation were the tools that produced what was supposed to be a statesmanlike, toothy war bill. But undoubtedly in a few months it will have to be scrapped for a warlike measure...
...Washington. At 7:30 each morning he stepped from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?from any point (including several places now unmentionable) where U.S. troops and airmen might have had anything to report overnight. His "log" might also...
Sept. 6-. . . Crossed big river on log jam. . . . Crossed another on log, wandered hr. or two, lost, back to river, found three native huts, one with floor. . . . Sick in night, first time, probably from stingers on hand and mouth...