Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the number of federal programs like TAA that have been designed to ease the pain of joblessness, spur retraining and supplement the assistance provided under existing unemployment programs has swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...
...what is laudable in Eugene is anathema to the lumbermen in the rest of the district. Says Weaver: "My problem is that my district's Establishment -it all revolves around the timber industry-opposes me." With help from lumber companies, utilities and the National Republican Congressional Committee, Mike Fitzgerald, 47, a garrulous, former public relations man from San Diego, has Weaver running like a Roosevelt elk, a species that he has fought to conserve. They agree only in their opposition to gun controls...
...some of the original settlers, including Dudley, remained, and operated a local government--the first town records include a stern warning to citizens to keep their property in "good and sufficient repair." It also lists Cambridge's first criminals--Knox, of Watertowne, who apparently cut lumber in the town, and Goodman Kinsbury, also of Watertowne, for "encroaching the bounds of this town...
BIRD AND CO-PRODUCER Deborah Shaffer use hundreds of still photos, patches of newsreel footage, and the music the Wobblies sung to document both the conditions of the era (in the lumber camps, "they were afraid the bindlestiffs would carry out the plates so they nailed the plates to the table and washed them out with a hose after they were finished eating") and the nobility of the Wobbly effort. The still photos work better than the newsreel footage--the herky-jerky pace of old movies jars the viewer, and even then everyone insisted on waving and posing for movie...
...football coach and athletic director at Alabama, Bryant earns $54,000 a year, but he is a self-made millionaire, an astute businessman whose real estate purchases and stock market advice are carefully watched by businessmen across the state. Part owner of a meat-packing firm and a lumber company, he has negotiated shrewd deals with the soft-drink and potato-chip companies that sponsor his TV show, and his picture has adorned billboards across the South-for a fee, of course. His Sunday-afternoon television program during the football season has drawn better ratings than professional football broadcasts...