Word: lumbermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schwartz points to the well-documented fact that Lincoln had disproportionately long arms, legs, hands and feet, even for a man of his height. While watching a regiment of Maine lumbermen during the Civil War, the President himself noted: "I don't believe that there is a man in that regiment with longer arms than mine." In 1907 a sculptor working with Lincoln casts observed that "the first phalanx of the middle finger is nearly half an inch longer than that of an ordinary hand." The President sometimes squinted with his left eye. All of these characteristics, according...
...federally irrigated land that can be owned by a farmer. Andrus has proposed redistributing the land and limiting owners to 960 acres each-a direct blow at the holdings of large corporate farmers. Many Western farmers also oppose Carter's determination to hold down agricultural subsidies. West Coast lumbermen fault him for not easing restrictions on their operations in federal lands. Observed Democratic Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado: "This whole region is just neurotic on the subject of the Carter Administration...
...ceilings on profit margins and thus could not legally enjoy the higher profit rates that frequently come with expanded sales. Phase III regulations provide for price increases "necessary for efficient allocation of resources" but say nothing about letting companies increase their profit margins by using the same excuse. Lumbermen last week were still confused by the rules; how well their problems are resolved will tell a lot about whether the program is actually as flexible as it seems...
Anderson would recognize the Stamper family of Sometimes a Great Notion. "Never give a inch" is the clan motto. Their dogged nonconformity takes heed neither of political fashion nor social form. When a general strike is called among the lumbermen of their small Oregon town, the Stampers go right on working. The union pays a visit, and the head of the clan (Henry Fonda) makes congenially threatening remarks about "Commie pinkos who tell us when to cut." Replies the bookish union leader: "That's as good a statement of 19th century philosophy as I've ever heard...
...Lumbermen argued just as strongly that clear-cutting helps control disease and produces "even-age" forests that provide quality timber. They stressed economics: the yield for a clear-cut area is 100%, compared to about 60% for selective cutting. Howard Bennett, secretary-manager of Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, went even further. Today's unmanaged forests, he said, are "graveyards of once fine trees that are now rotting hulks on the forest floor, sent into oblivion by the sincere but misguided efforts of those who confuse preservation with conservation...