Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional farm bloc, most powerful of all Washington groups, put their shoulders to the log and rolled...
With the argument over the use of the butterfly arm movement scarcely having sunk into obscurity, another controversy concerning the ancient breast stroke has been started by the proposal of Matt Mann, coach of the famous University of Michigan swimming teams, to allow the fishtail log drive in breast-stroke competition...
Summing up aircraft industry's prodigious wartime growth, Aviation calculated its manufacturing backlog at $8,343,000,000. Biggest was the yule log on Curtiss-Wright's hearth, only $5 million less than a billion. Second largest: Ford Motor Co. (engines, four-motored bombers) with $736 million. Third: Consolidated Aircraft, $725 million...
Before taking off, Ickes criticized a contract Jesse Jones had negotiated with Aluminum Co. of America for operating three Government-owned aluminum plants, urged that the contract never be signed. It was signed anyway (TIME, Sept. 1). Ickes, in a log cabin 3,000 miles from Washington, sat down and wrote his letter...
Their opponent, Chief Boston's Freshman team, was not so fortunate, however, because its captain, Jack fisher, was carried off the field with a log injury which may keep him out of the Dartmouth game Saturday...