Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next few weeks 6,000 huskies, sent out by lumber companies and forestry services, will take to the woods, armed for total war. The enemy: white pine blister rust, an incurable fungus infection that is spreading like a blitzkrieg...
C.I.O.'s wild-riding cavalry was galloping toward the outworks of the South's weakly organized mass industries: oil, textiles, lumber, chemicals, steel. A.F. of L.'s slower moving infantry hoped to bulge through the same defenses with less show, more power. Said William Green's order...
...over the nation there was now little hesitancy-from sellers & buyers alike-in flouting the laws. In the South and Southwest it was lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
...playin' for the Lumber Workers' Union. We was singin' around in the shingle mills. There was a lady out West out there in the lumber camp and her name was Annie and so every time they'd have a songfest Annie would outshout all of them. So people got to call her Hootin' Annie but the name got spread all over and so out there when they are going to have a shindig they call it Hootenanny...