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Lowest Point. Aoki's colony was making quiet progress when the islanders were suddenly aroused by a Japanese plan to build a leprosarium on Okinawa. They burned the lumber for the buildings, finally forced Tokyo to postpone the plan. Then an enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start...
...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...
...stake was $1,200,000 of interest accumulated in a trust fund set up 50 years ago by an art-loving Chicago lumber merchant named Benjamin F. Ferguson. Ferguson's intention had seemed clear enough: "The erection and maintenance of enduring statuary and monuments, in whole or in part of stone, granite or bronze in the parks, along the boulevards or in other public places." Chicago's Art Institute got the job of picking appropriate subjects and sites...
...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...