Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laughter and games, with art occasional murder, continued until a Dade County grand jury and the Kefauver Committee turned over a few logs and gave the public a quick view of the denizens that scurried for other cover. Governor Warren, looking and sounding outraged, took quick action: he fired a handful of sheriffs and constables (including Dade County's wealthy Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan). The quizzing went on and the governor saw another log overturned, right on the Statehouse lawn. Out scurried one of the governor's old friends, William Johnston, big-shot Miami and Chicago race-track operator...
Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...Log Jam. But would the trouble end that quickly? Many worried businessmen doubted it. Auto dealers, cursing Regulation W's strictures on installment credit, hunted for buyers, saw their stocks of new cars mount to more than 400,000, a full month's supply. Hudson had so many unsold cars backed up that they overflowed into Detroit's State Fair Grounds. Last week it shut down for two weeks and laid off 10,000 men to let sales catch...
Every year about this time, the lamentable Legend of Sydney Pumpton '47 rises to the minds of Seniors like a half-saturated log that has been stirred loose from the bottom of a pond. The tale is passed gingerly from mouth to mouth at breakfast and dinner tables. And Seniors are sore afraid...
...eight plants around the U.S. and Canada (headquarters: Detroit), Fruehauf now produces scores of stock trailer models, including refrigerator cars, liquid tank carriers, log haulers, livestock vans. But much of its business still comes from customers who need special trailers which