Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tireless Estes, our clowning campaigner, has restored my faith in human nature and my fellow men. Seldom does a candidate advertise his weaknesses so candidly as the sign on the old lumber wagon ["Please Help a Poor Candidate"]. May not a poor candidate be a poor President? FLORENCE M. FLYNN Pepperell, Mass...
...richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers had lived, like Composer Merle Travis' coalminer father, in company towns-drab, depressed communities where the worker traded at a company store,* rented a company house, was watched by company cops. Today company towns are still flourishing in the U.S. But the towns, and the tune, have...
...country's largest underground mine) with ski tows, a $31,700 youth center, a $106,000 recreation hall with bowling alleys, library, target range and gymnasium, a $128,000 skating rink and a TV booster to bring in programs from distant stations. Crown Zellerbach Corp., which runs three lumber company towns in Washington and Oregon, concentrates on youth activities, allots timberland tracts to Boy Scout troops, awards college scholarships to company town children...
Reed's bounce is built in. The second son of a Welsh-born lumber company accountant in Philadelphia, he was a hard-plugging student and star footballer in high school. He won a scholarship to Princeton, but had to drop out when his father lost his job. He got an accounting job by day, went to Philadelphia's Wharton School at night. At 29, he went to American Express as assistant to the comptroller, rose through the ranks, until in 1944 he became president...
...many of his colleagues in the U.S. Foreign Service, long-legged Angus Ward was always a bit of a trial. When Angus joined the service in 1925, after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...