Word: lumberingly
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Detroit had need of such toughness. It was the heartland of a new flurry of strikes which extended from the Pacific Northwest lumber industry to a toolmakers' plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...
...even in unions involved in strikes, leaders were careful to renew lip service to their "no strike" pledge, although their eyes sometimes gave the go-ahead wink to strikers. The 30.000 men (both A.F. of L. and C.I.O.) who shut down the Pacific Northwest's big lumber industry were not officially striking; they cynically called it "going fishing." And in one of the most costly strikes in the nation, a union took peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that his 1,900 strikers at Parke, Davis...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, averred that they were anxious about the war labor situation. Donald Nelson used such phrases as "desperately acute," "a great danger," "very grave," and "serious" to describe the manpower needs in the casting and foundry industries, lumber, pulpwood and textiles...
This week, now nearing 40, John Gardner was busy doing something important about the war-born lumber shortage. Helping push toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...
...topped by a stovepipe hat. He never doffed either, even when pulling a key log in a bad jam. He seldom talked except to his fabulous horse, Bonnie Doone, who could travel 65 miles in six hours. Later he became one of Canada's first Senators, gave up lumbering for the steamboat business. His legend has been carried by his lumberjacks to lumber camps across the continent: all woods bosses are called "The Main John...