Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This course in Business Policy, under Professor De Haas, has taken up various national and international industries, studying especially the interrelatious of industry and outside factors. The industries of aviation, lumber, rubber, electric power, and chemistry, have been studied so far. Carlos Davlla, Ambassador from Chile to the United States, lectured to the course last Saturday on the saltpeter production, in connection with the study of the chemical industry...
...have adopted the metric system. It was found that only two older units of measure were in common use in any of these countries. In the Balearic Isles the inhabitants still use the old Spanish ounce, and in parts of Germany the old Rhenish inch is still used in lumber measurement...
...cargo had disappeared under the Indian Ocean in 1844. The family which lived at Falkirk, Scotland, was poor. Robert Dollar's mother died, and his father began to drink. At 13 Robert Dollar emigrated to Canada, got a job as chore boy to a cook in a lumber camp...
...careers of self-made men there is always a moment when someone they are working for discovers their ambition. That moment came for Robert Dollar when the camp superintendent found him trying to learn arithmetic. The superintendent had him trained to keep accounts. At 21 Robert Dollar was a lumber camp boss. He got $26 a month and saved his money. He began to pay installments on a farm, bossing a camp of 60 lumberjacks. "I never had to smoke or drink to make them know I was the boss...
...next year he went into business for himself. It took him three years to pay off the debts that he incurred in that first enterprise. "I had good luck-I failed when I was young." The boom in Michigan lumber came and went. He was still poor. He went to the Coast. He was 50 before he had enough money to buy a sawmill. Transportation was bad and expensive. He bought the Newsboy, a 300-ton ship, to take his lumber to ports along the Pacific Coast...