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Llano must have been near Grabow, though, and I know that 20 years earlier Covington Hall had lived there too. Perhaps he had stayed somewhere in the huge lumber camps, for he had been organizing the workers there, goading them into rebellion, publishing a paper called The Voice of the People. The workers had strck: the Galloway Lumber Company, which owned the town, had posted armed guards; and on a hot summer day in 1912 the strikers and guards had gotten into a shooting match that left three dead and 48 wounded. Perhaps the Galloway lumber camps are, there...
...contains the famed Allagash and St. John white-water canoeing streams. Inside the ten check-in points, where out-of-state visitors pay a $2-per-night fee, there are no rangers, gas stations, restaurants or stores. Scattered through the woods are some 500 campsites, none with "facilities." The lumber companies that own most of the woods have built dirt roads for their logging trucks, but few camping vehicles penetrate the fastnesses...
...baseball makes it less attractive. Many say that the Sox have a more or less deliberate anti-black policy anyways: they point to plantation-owning owner Tom Yawkey, "Massa Tom," who is a very old and wildly wealthy man ("management and control of mines, mineral interests, timber lands, lumber and paper mills...") who doesn't hesitate to spend his riches in pursuit of a pennant. He seldom gets this pennant, and some claim that a decidedly loaded sense of priorities contributes to this poor record. The front office that negotiates the agreements that have junked so many black players...
Housing is one of the keys to the U.S. economy, because its fortunes affect the sales of lumber, steel, furniture, appliances and many other products. For the past two years, it also has been just about the sickest of all American industries. Last week it finally began flashing signals of a recovery, albeit a modest, slow and uneven...
...horse around in the basement with this stuff and have fun." To show how much fun it is, Anderson teamed up with a fellow karate enthusiast, Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, for a board-breaking exhibition at the Capital Centre in suburban Maryland. Anderson, however, showed that punching lumber can be tougher than hitting typewriter keys. While a crowd of 7,000 looked on, the columnist karate-chopped a stack of wood -and cracked a bone in the knuckle of his little finger...