Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Tillamook forest fire in northwestern Oregon licked up 10,500,000,000 feet of standing timber, enough to supply Portland's sawmills for 20 years. Despite that loss Oregon is still the leading lumber State, still has the nation's largest remaining stands of commercial timber. Last week the No. 1 lumber State, parched by weeks of hot weather, was on fire again in the worst blaze since Tillamook. At Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned...
...swarming over the U. S. S. R., measuring each peasant garden. Abuses, declared Benediktov, will be rectified. All far-from-home plots will be replaced by land adjacent to villages, where officials can keep an eye on them. To millions of hard-working peasants this meant the loss of painfully wrought improvements. And some collective-farm managers, with a characteristically Russian excess of zeal, have confiscated all private plots, legal or not, and ejected counter-revolutionary cattle from communal pastures...
...been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written "solely for money"), telling about his three marriages, two divorces (wife No. 2 recommended him as "an altogether delightful person, but absolutely impossible"); the loss of a $1,500,000 inheritance, mostly by gambling, which fascinated him as a mathematical problem to which he was always finding a new "solution...
...Rubber, in 1938's first half, reported sales of $67,829,786, a loss of $239,213. This year, its sales were up 30% and its profits were $4,465,397. Only $5,208,728 is needed to cover a full year's dividend ($8) on the company's 651,091 shares of preferred. Last week its preferred shares sold at $109½, yielding 7.3% to income-minded buyers who counted on holding it on the possibility that Mr. Davis will offer them a trade-in for U. S. Rubber's common. The common last week...
...citizens stuck with German bonds, SEC's refusal to let Germany "pay" was no great loss, if anything, opened possibilities of a better deal. The bonds were last week kicking around in Wall Street for 25? on the dollar, in Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which...