Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ruhr, where pigeon racing has an almost mystical attraction, many of last week's racers were third-generation pigeon breeders. But while bloodlines are important, no pigeon will log a fast flight unless it has some strong urge to get there. Breeders have a special trick to bring their birds back quickly. Playing on the pigeons' monogamous habits, they separate competitors from their mates for a week before the race, give them one long soulful look at their spouses before shipping them off to the starting line...
...embankment in Parley's Canyon, just off heavily traveled U.S. 40, in the Wasatch Mountains, east of Salt Lake. Highway patrolmen clambered down to remove the bodies. Hixon lay dead, 20-ft. from the car. Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted the log, she gave a low cry. Though chilled by the night air, the body was warm. Jean gave another weak cry and mumbled that she was cold. Hyatt wrapped her in a blanket, rushed her to the hospital. Despite her bruises, emaciation, shock and exposure, doctors said...
...profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner than some slave quarters...
...either a dull academic question or a potential trouble-maker in the November elections. Hucksters of both parties have made the "farm problem," a matter of narrow interest, using a flood of paper panaceas to obscure the real existence of a weak sector of the economy. Careless subsidy plans, log-rolling, and philosophical battle cries have replaced intelligent efforts to solve one of the nation's most important domestic problems...
Peanuts in the Parks. Corn Senators, milk Senators, wheat Senators, cotton Senators, hog Senators, rice Senators and peanut Senators had formed a series of log-rolling alliances. They pushed through an increase in corn acreage, a two-price system for wheat, a dual parity plan covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which...