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Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whom I helped to elect, makes myself and a hell of a lot of other Mountain citizens sick with his anti-Roosevelt policies. I think that he should receive the same punishment that I would have received had I divulged vital military secrets to the entire world. I would also like to state that most of us Mountain boys are not afraid of Herr Hitler or anything he represents, and just as soon as President Roosevelt gives us the green light, we will...
...whine that cut through the smoky air was sad music to Oregon lumberjacks. It meant that the long, clear cry of "Timberrrr!" would soon ring out no more in the stillness of the forest-it would be drowned by the din of a mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan was more legendary...
...jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple of ripped 'chutes, no injuries...
...crop, hell," said Mr. Young, "this makes seven families I've lost this week. This God damned WPA is ruining the country...
Alvin York is an irreverent young buck who punctuates his grinding labors on a rocky farm with spells of boozy hell-raising and gunplay. Love of Gracie sets him hankering for a farm of his own. His painful efforts to earn enough money to buy the land end in his being diddled out of both land and money...