Word: moosehead
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...PRETTY SIMPLE, but two nights talking politics over Moosehead Ale in Farmington's leading bar robs politics of much of its complexity. In northern New Hampshire, politics is a little like ice-racing. Success lies in avoiding the spinning crashes, escaping from the crunching wrecks, collecting the most superficial dents...
...Maine's Moosehead Lake-frigid in winter, plagued by black flies in summer-300 ft. of water frontage is selling for $30,000, or double the price of two years...
...ners for prospective customers, paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being turned into tacky subdivisions...
...sense of grandeur. On a visit last week, TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil found that the sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three study rooms there, but not a single book on their many shelves...
...interest of self-survival, the short lines are often even more aggressive than their big brothers. When the failure of local industries threatened its existence, Maine's Belfast & Moosehead Lake built a chicken-feed plant along its line, leased it to an operator and began a feed haul from the plant to the Maine Central. In Texas, where every one of the 13 short-line railroads is making a profit, Veteran Railroader Joseph P. Kerr bought the tenmile, three-diesel Georgetown Railroad five years ago, persuaded nearly a dozen plants to locate along his line, and last year netted...