Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber and cattle provide work for more than 20,000 Nicaraguans. To get his produce to world markets, he has organized a private merchant marine, the Mamenic Line...
JOHN L. LEWIS, who rarely loses a battle in the coal fields, has lost a bitter, 16-month fight to organize West Virginia's Independent League of Widen Miners (some 600 members) under the U.M.W. banner. The miners, working at the big Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. at Widen, one of the largest outside Lewis' union, refused to join because their pay is higher than the union average and their dues much lower (50?a month v. $4 plus for the U.M.W...
...years after the biscuit story, Glasgow was working as editor of the Warren Eagle-Democrat at a time when the community was going through "an explosive, hectic time, caught squarely in the painful throes of a union effort to organize the local lumber mills." Says he: "I learned rather quickly that reporting is a bit more complicated and less benign than simply estimating biscuit consumption...
...that he personally was going to load the next flatcar. At dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with the tar paper. Two days later they were in the Soviet zone of Austria-with the border of the U.S. zone just ahead. The Cechs...
...refreshed by this news, and by water from a nearby spring, Bedrich and Marian Cech took a desperate chance. Armed with their tools and Marian's lumberyard identification, they marched straight up to the stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations...