Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living well off its rich 5,000 acres of timber, its 3,000 in grapes and pears, its 8,000 in olive and almond groves, with 5,000 peasants to tend them. Lord Bridport saw and felt the yearning for change that began sweeping through the peasantry of Italy. The Sicilian Parliament began talking of a big land reform program. But while the Parliament only talked, Lord Bridport decided to act for himself...
...economizers like Congressman Frederic R. Coudert Jr. get their way, they'll save the American taxpayer $4.7 billion [TIME, April 21] ... just like the fellow living on the edge of a timber plantation who balanced the family budget one hot dry summer by cutting out fire insurance...
...published in the U.S., The Rebellion of the Hanged, shows both the best and the worst side of his manner. His story, set in Mexico some time before the revolution of 1910, tells how the peons used to be duped into almost lifelong servitude on the big estates and timber properties. Like a man telling an enthralling tale to children, Traven describes the plain peasant, Candido, going off to the mahogany forest to join the slave-labor gang. As a fee-greedy doctor has let his wife die, Candido has to take his two little sons along: also with...
...mahogany capitalists and their overseers have only one aim: to make each slave fell four tons of timber a day. They have found that flogging with a bull whip has a poor effect on physique, so instead, they "hang" the workers when necessary, i.e., leave them suspended from a tree by ropes, where red ants, ticks, chiggers and mosquitoes can liven them up. Hanging is done at night so as to add to the physical anguish "the unspeakable, inexplicable horror . . . that the Indian feels of phantoms and specters...
...Candidate Harold Stassen intends using two actors to play an "average" husband & wife who will ask questions culled from the letters written him by citizens interested in his views. ¶ When Georgia's Senator Richard Russell moves on to Timber's platform, he will leave behind him such adornments of the Southern political scene as hillbilly singers and guitarists. With a combination of film clips and interviews, Russell hopes to cover his career and background as well as his stand on the major issues. ¶ Senator Robert Taft will use Moderator Bob Trout as an interviewer...