Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration's whole farm program. Ohio's Senator Fess attacked the party loyalty cf Idaho...
Building Materials. On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley...
...many years ago in U. S. industry that business was thought of largely in terms of great basic commodities. Iron, steel, leather, lumber, copper, flour-these and similar staples constituted almost the entire structure of U. S. industry. That they still remain the backbone, the foundation, of industry is undeniable. Yet many of today's most successful industrial enterprises, remarkable both in their size and in their earnings, belong to the nonessential classifications...
...branch up to Canada, and bridge over to New England, by way of Mr. Loree's friendly, temporarily isolated Delaware & Hudson,* and go into New England over the N. Y., N. H. & H. New York Central, C. & O. and B. & 0. would han le Michigan's automobiles, furniture and lumber; the B. & O., C. & 0. and the Pennsylvania the South's lumber and fruits northward bound and South America's raw materials U. S. bound. All four roads would touch Chicago, St. Louis and New York; and all but the New York Central, Baltimore...
...editor. Jack Shuttleworth joined the staff in 1924. Like Norman Anthony he was born in Buffalo and inhaled the mirth-inspiring atmosphere of that city during his childhood. He tried two other ways to make a living: studied engineering at the University of Cincinnati, worked in a lumber camp in Canada. But Norman Anthony was an old friend, and pointed the way to his salvation with an invitation to come to Judge...