Word: lumberjack
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Consolidated Timber Co., a cooperative formed by the owners of Tillamook, started this frantic race with the insects before the embers had cooled, poured more than $3,500,000 into building logging railroads, highways and lumberjack camps. By the end of last year they had salvaged 3.5 billion feet (Tillamook timber built most of the new West Coast shipyards...
...oldtimers' annoyance, girls have become expert birlers too. The girl whom the lumberjills were out to wet last week was husky Mary Jean Malott, 21, of Cornell, Wis., defending Queen of the White Water. Queen Mary Jean, a lumberjack's daughter, has been an exhibition birler since she was six, barnstorms with carnivals and sportsmen's shows during vacations from Anderson Seminary, where she is studying to be a preacher...
...Gladstone's taverns that night, loggers and their ladies drank toasts to King Jimmy and Queen Mary Jean before lapsing into the classic lumberjack's nightcap: all 42 verses of the ballad, The Jam on Garry's Rock...
...Dunnes-Miles, Grant and Vincent -moved in on Minneapolis industry in 1934. Of the three, Vincent is the blazingest ball of fire. Born in Minnesota's agricultural country, he streaked into the woods at an early age to be a lumberjack, joined the I.W.W. and became an ardent Wobbly revolutionist. In Minneapolis he signed up with the Communist Party...
Rough, tough-talking, convivial, mustachioed Painter Thomas Hart Benton gave way to rough, mustachioed Painter Fletcher Martin, ex-lumberjack-boxer-football player, as the Kansas City Art Institute's head of painting and drawing...