Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever NDMB's future, he could point to a bright past. Of 72 labor disputes certified to it, only 15 were still pending. More significant than the number of settlements made was the fact that the Board had broken critical defense log jams in coal, steel, lumber, shipbuilding, ordnance, machinery, aviation. Even more significant for future U.S. labor relations had been the metamorphosis of the Board's own tri-partite personnel (representatives of management, labor and the public). Weighted with responsibilities, labor's own men had cracked down on many a reckless strike leader, read...
...George VI presented the Most. Excellent Order of the British Empire to gaunt, nerveless Victoria Drummond, 42. a British Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank Greenberg shone in close order drill and calisthenics, won a promotion to corporal. / / Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) went to work in Leningrad as a fire fighter. / / The public...
...years the machine has been slowly taming the hellion lumber industry. The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck. But the trees still had to be cut down by hand. The faller (who chops and saws the tree), the bucker (who saws the timber into logs) were indispensable reminders of the lusty, whiskered logger of old. They may not be much longer. Like the black cotton pickers of the South,* they are on their way to limbo...
...entries: ranging from sleek sloops and speedboats to the work boats of local oystermen and crabbers. In the sailing classes there were Snipes, Stars, Comets (the Eastern Shore's own baby), Scrappy Cats, Sneak Bores, Crickets. But the heart of the Miles River Regatta is the hallowed log canoe...
...log sailing canoe is indigenous to Chesapeake Bay. Modeled after those used by Indians in Maryland waters, its hull is hewn out of three or five huge logs, spiked together. Long before the Civil War, Bay fishermen used log canoes for tending crab pots. During the war, they were used to run the blockade from the Eastern to Western shore. The watermen of St. Michaels took to racing one another, began to build lighter, faster racing boats...