Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tradition is all right," he admits, "but there must be close to 2000 board feet of lumber, in that damned thing." Purchasing this pine plus paying the carpenters and laborers required to make the Commencement deadline costs the University several thousand dollars every year...
...hustled down the rainswept Willamette Valley, over to the Pacific Coast and back to the central Oregon lumber country-pumping hands, signing autographs, ripping off ten speeches a day. He peered at cows in Corvallis, at logging operations along the Umpqua River. He accepted a salmon at Oregon City, signed his name in blood for a local booster club at Coos Bay, paraded with an organization called the "Cavemen" at Grants Pass and, at their bidding, munched on a large bone. When his bus ran over a dog near Salem, he shipped off a pedigreed cocker to the bereaved owners...
...story appeared on the newsstands, Joe Axelrod figures he has heard from just about everybody he ever knew (messages of congratulation, etc.). He has also received hundreds of letters (over 400 at this writing) from people he doesn't know, and one man, a Canadian lumber salesman who had read the story, dropped in at the plant to say "hello," explaining that he had felt like taking a trip and "just wanted to meet a fellow like...
...full, brutal meaning of the brooms became clear only when the new government's Ministry of Social Welfare announced that Czechoslovaks fired by the action committees would be sent to labor in mines, quarries, lumber camps. In two weeks Soviet-style forced labor had come to the "new people's democracy" of Czechoslovakia...
...running low. The other stockholders wanted to dissolve the company and split up the $750,000 on hand. Instead, John Haussermann stubbornly insisted on spending some of the cash on prospecting. He won the gamble; a rich new strike put him in a position to buy a lumber company, a power station, and a $300,000 controlling interest in the Balatoc Mining Corp...