Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl has absolute control over more than 40 state boards, departments and commissions. He holds the liquor industry under his thumb by means of a board with vast regulatory powers. He can influence Louisiana's $204 million oil industry, its $14 million sulphur industry, its $112 million lumber industry through his Conservation Commission...
...week long Warsaw was treated to a gigantic dose of such dialectics. It was the annual conference of the Communist-dominated World Federation of Democratic Youth. There were delegates from 46 countries-Indian girls in saris, Vietnamese in lumber jackets, Uzbeks in embroidered beanies (called tyubeteiki), Americans in sloppy sweaters with Wallace-for-President buttons...
...standing charge that ECA was a U.S. plot to divide Europe, by urging "the greatest possible stimulation of trade" between Western and Eastern Europe (except for military items). He underlined his point by allotting ECA dollar credits for purchases in Czechoslovakia and Finland. Asked about Polish coal and Yugoslav lumber, Hoffman answered: "We want you to buy in Europe, whether or not it's behind the Iron Curtain...
...homespun diplomat with a New Hampshire twang, portly "Whit" Whittemore milked cows as a boy in Pembroke, later tried railroading, sat on the New Hampshire tax commission, and ran. a lumber business. In 1929 he joined the Boston & Maine Railroad, became assistant to the president...
Democratic roofers worked and worried last week in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which most Southern Democrats had voted in Congress. Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody...