The report said slaves would have done the hard work, like sawing logs and moving stones, as well as working at quarries to get raw materials.
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According to USA Today, the baggage handler for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American, told cops he was drunk early Saturday morning when he decided to crawl in among the luggage inside a 737 and catch a few quick Zs. Apparently, no one on the ground at Kansas City International Airport noticed that the unnamed 23-year-old was conked out, so they just closed up the cargo hold with the man still sawing logs inside.
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Sawing logs into finished lumber with a basic "portable" sawmill. An American sawmill, circa 1920 Early 20th-century sawmill, maintained at Jerome, Arizona. A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber).
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The park billed the ride as "the most popular and exciting ride ever devised." During the 1970s, Six Flags Over Texas added themed animations along the ride in which Lumberjacks could be seen sawing logs. Also added was a cover to the drop on flume 2, which later was removed along with the animations. El Aserradero's success inspired many amusement parks around the world to add a log flume of some type.
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The event is something of a fiasco and the comestibles are stolen by a rival gang, the Hubert Laneites, while William and the Outlaws attempt to retrieve the now runaway dogs. The experience of trying to run a book is not a happy one for Douglas and he ends up taking to his heels pursued by angry punters. In retribution William's father demands further unpaid labour, sawing logs, but William's ingenuity knows no bounds and he is able to score a psychological victory over Hubert Lane and his gang.
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Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 – a strip starring two German-American boys visually modelled on Max and Moritz. Familiar comic- strip iconography such as stars for pain, sawing logs for snoring, speech balloons, and thought balloons originated in Dirks' strip. Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.
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As in other industries in Russia, based on the extraction of raw materials and the resumption of raw materials in the timber industry a significant proportion of revenue is formed by the export of raw materials sawing logs. For a long time Russia was the main supplier of wood raw material in Europe According to analyst group of companies Lesprom Network, the Russian government's decision to raise export duty on roundwood in July 2007 by 20%, and April 2008, 25% resulted in a decrease in the competitiveness of Russian companies-exporters in world markets. In the second half of 2008, amid the global economic crisis, the volume of construction fell sharply in Japan, China and Western Europe, production volumes declined substantially in the major economic sectors that consume the wood . In 2008, the volume of timber in Russia decreased by 14.4% compared with 2007.
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