Word: redwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California's northern redwood country, striking A.F.L. lumbermen and sawmill workers voted to go back to work for the first time since January 1946-thus ending the oldest strike...
Only a few other trees now living, including the redwood of California and the ginkgo, are of such ancient origin...
...Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown...
...wounded cries about being scooped, piled out, found Taft at the Union League Club and got interviews of their own. The Senator got on a fast train after that, beat the newsmen to the coast by twelve hours. He had time to attend an outdoor steak dinner in a redwood grove, and to have a private chat with California's G.O.P. Governor Earl Warren...
...Labor Department lists three older strikes: California redwood workers (September 1945); textile workers at the Gaffney Mfg. Co., Gaffney, S. C. (September 1945); seven railroad unions at the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad (October...