Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...become the biggest, richest, most powerful union in the land. Backed by eleven other industrial unions, leader Lewis is now attempting to organize Steel's 500,000 workers on the same principle. Beyond that- implicit in his announced plan to organize the automobile, rubber, lumber and textile industries as well as steel-lies a far greater goal...
...kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before the meet was scheduled to start therein. In other respects, Chairman Bingham & committee failed to realize their plans. In a dusty little stadium surrounded by tin cans and scraps of lumber, not quite half the expected capacity crowd of 22.000 turned up for the first day of the meet. Until a drenching thunderstorm chased them home, they sat in puzzled silence watching a succession of events run off about as systematically as the potato races at a church bazaar...
...more than 24 hours the Democratic Party's best carpenters made a great to-do over putting these pieces together again. First the 53 members of the Resolutions Committee, without waiting for their official appointment, held a public hearing and examined every piece of lumber, knotty or warped, new or shopworn, which was hopefully offered as platform material by leaders of blocs and factions, economists, radicals, cranks. Heard by the committee were A. F. of L.'s William Green, American Farm Bureau Federation's Edward A. O'Neal, the National Grange's Louis J. Taber...
Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...