Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they gave us 20 ounces of rye bread, two cups of tea and two dishes of 'Volga.' We called the soup they gave us 'Volga' because it was nothing but water. On this diet the prisoners were expected to do heavy labor -mostly cutting lumber in the forest around the camp. Nonetheless, I succeeded in carrying out my mission as a priest-secretly. A Hungarian turner who was Catholic found a tiny aluminum cylinder, and out of it made a chalice so small that I could hide it in my closed fist. From a piece...
...river became a great commercial waterway. Fisheries thrived in its waters. Harvests of cod, whale and eels were yielded by the salt tide that rolls upstream from the Atlantic; sturgeon, whitefish and trout teemed in the fresh-water lakes. The virgin forests on its shores fed the pioneer lumber industry with log rafts the size of small islands floating downstream to be loaded in ships at Quebec...
...Anything you mention around here is the thousands. It would be too costly and impractical to keep track of all the pipe, lumber, and other materials we use," explains Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Thus, while maintenance crews record the supplies they use on individual jobs, the central office does not tally the totals from the forms turned in each...
...mail himself, carefully putting each letter back in its envelope to be answered by his five-woman staff. Surprisingly little of his mail conies from Georgia-George's constituents seem to be reluctant to take up his time. While the Senate was in recess one summer, a Vienna lumber dealer drove 200 miles to complain to George's colleague, Richard Russell, about trouble with war orders. Russell asked why the man had come all that way, since he lived just a few blocks from George in Vienna. The reply: "Oh, we wouldn't think of bothering...
Point of No Return. In Philadelphia, after ransacking the Doering and Beatty Lumber Co. for half an hour. Burglar John Queenan finally found a slip of paper inscribed with the combination to the office safe, opened the safe, found it empty, in disgust telephoned police to come and arrest...