Word: shutdown
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hills close down; over the Jogging railroads that curve through the logged-off land, over the pitted roads, the fallers, buckers, choker setters, whistle punks hurry to the cities or for a visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains...
Last week the Christmas shutdown, was on in earnest, but with a new twist. Spreading through the Northwest was a joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. strike that at week's end had closed 38 mills and five logging camps. Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate...
...Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading the work of subcontractors into its smallest possible subdivisions. Several moribund New England towns rolled up their sleeves and spit on their hands. But while the defense boom reclaimed old ghost towns, a new question rose: How many new ones would it create...
...towns are not so decadent as they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...
...with two children to support and his machinist job gone in a seasonal shutdown, Jim Williams did the hardest work of his life as a coal-heaver in a Detroit power plant, finally, in desperation, applied for a job as a policeman. Just as he had been accepted for the force, NEA decided it liked some of his drawings, asked him to go to Cleveland, offered him a contract to do a cartoon a day. At first Jim Williams' cartoons had hard sledding. Irate Cleveland dowagers wrote letters to the Cleveland Press, complaining that nobody wanted to see pictures...