Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority. When the north woods were stripped, he moved into Idaho, into Oregon...
...Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's melodrama, wherein Leslie Howard arranges to have himself shot by a fugitive gangster...
...Pont, reorganizer and onetime head of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (TIME, May 6): an estate estimated as high as $100,000,000; in Jacksonville, Fla. To his third wife, Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont, go $200,000 a year, his Florida estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate, plus $1,000,000 cash and "Nemours," his famed Wilmington estate...
...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...
...were the thousands of gifts which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...