Word: hardwoods
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...lumber the hardwood forests of the Appalachian hillsides and the Mississippi Valley have a code which, as codes go, is a good one. The mill owners lived happily under it for nearly a year. Among other things it provides for production control, cost protection, hard & fast minimum prices. And for an industry which has no less than 5,800 members in its trade association and code authority, the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, there was surprisingly little chiseling...
...chiseling there was, particularly on prices, and enough to annoy the responsible lumberman who lived up to the code. Prices were revised in July, some up, some down. The upped prices hit the hardwood men's best customer, the automobile industry...
Last week in the Hotel Peabody in Memphis, 500 hardwood lumbermen assembled in a hot session of their Institute to hear not their best customer but the lumbermen themselves attack price-fixing. More notable, the meeting was largely concerned with a single order? some 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 ft. of hardwood for Fisher bodies...
...enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom hats, red tassels and plum colored jackets, plays 48 drums, 48 gongs, eight long slabs of hardwood to be struck by jade hammers, and 24 flutes of piercing shrillness...
...onetime Presidential yacht Mayflower, one of Calvin Coolidge's few genuine diversions in office. Harry Ross stood close by. The only sound in the stillness of the house was the pitter-patter of Tiny Tim's claws as the Coolidge chow came & went on the hardwood floors. Far away through the same night with many a long whistle there roared a 13-car special bearing the great of Washington to Northampton...