Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not think that the Yard is about to burst into bloom. Trunks stand at each entryway, and express trucks career and careen along paths where on ordinary days only a desultory laundry cart is now and then to be seen. The dingy, white lumber heaps that desecrate the greensward beneath them and the elms above, give no inkling that they will look much better in company with twilight and Japanese lanterns. Now they add a minor crudity to the normal grotesqueries of the Yard...
Bobby Jones beat Cyril Tolley. Jones tried for birdies; Tolley tried for fives, took sixes and sevens; Jones drove like a matchless machine, geared to hit the ball 270 yards; Tolley hooked, sliced, topped, drove out of bounds into a lumber yard on the second hole, picked up four times, won only a single hole, lost by the incredible score of 12 down...
Joseph Rochemont Hamlen '04 is a native of Portland, Me., where he returned, after leaving College, to enter the lumber business. In 1911 he went to Little Rock, Ark., to take charge of the manufacturing operations of his company in the South. He is chairman of the Arkansas Forestry Commission. In 1917, he went to Washington, D. C., to become assistant to the acting chairman of the executive committee of the American Red Cross with Eliot Wadsworth '98; and later assumed Mr. Wadsworth's duties while he the latter was in Europe. Hamlen returned to the South...
...Lumber. William Alfred Pickering of Pickering, La., and Kansas City, Mo., let a generation flick by and last week signed another Pickering company charter-for the newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet...
...Kansas City was also the headquarters of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. (13 plants, 126 retail yards), which Robert Alexander Long has made famous, not only by trademarking each board he puts out, but more so by creating the model industrial city of Longview on a drab stretch of the Washington shore of the Columbia River. Oceangoing steamers can dock at Longview. It is a little west of Portland...