Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agents for Candidate Bob Kerr staked out the Hilton's Normandie Lounge as a site for a genuine log cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...
...Level. As Ike said, the creed was an old one. But the man, the year and the place made it new and alive. This was not the local-boy-makes-good story. It was not the up-from-log-cabin story. Nor was Ike suggesting that all problems could be solved by the simple equations of rural Kansas. This was the story of fundamentals which had served Ike Eisenhower well -and through him, the nation. It was the creed of the man who could say "Free government is the political expression of a deeply felt religious faith...
...grandson of an escaped slave, Dunn was born in a log house in Salem. New Jersey. From early childhood, he showed a great interest in art, which he "first studied from nature." While in primary school, he was taught draftsmanship and coloring by an artist friend. After he graduated from grammar school, his father, a Delaware River fisherman sent him to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia where he studied stone masonry. After this trade school, followed several years of training in a scattering of Philadelphia and Boston art schools. To finance this schooling. Dunn worked during the summer on farms...
...committee has released only excerpts from the log's contents, treats it like a top secret military document because of its vast importance to^the whole tax scandal investigation. At night, it is kept under guard in a Treasury Department vault...
...least gave it the biggest single voice in its management. Unlike other investors, Ohio Match had not been buying Nipper for its oil lands; it was buying it for its timber lands. By virtue of its huge purchases, Ohio Match had been able to get long-term contracts to log Nipper's white pine stands for matches...