Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anson C. Goodyear, lumber...
...harsh words from any man. From President Coolidge, who applied them last week to the Flood Control bill which had been passed by the Senate and was pending before the House, they sounded almost savage. President Coolidge added that the provisions of the bill would enrich great railroad and lumber companies besides impoverishing the national Treasury. The bill called nominally for $325,000,000, but every one realized that in practice the cost could run as high as $1,500,000,000, or $1,210,000,000 more than the Army engineers had asked for the work. The President suggested...
...kicked out of the Senate." Mr. Schafer roared that Mr. Lorimer, aside from his political disrepute, should not be privileged to come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control, for the reason that Mr. Lorimer was personally interested in Flood Control. His William Lorimer Lumber Co. owns land in the area where the U. S. was to buy floodways under the terms of the pending Bill. Let Mr. Lorimer get out, roared Mr. Schafer...
...floor of the House, where he could defend himself, the aging blond boss explained that his lumber company owned only 1,000 acres in the proposed floodway; that flood waters neither harmed nor helped his timber; that he was not seeking to sell anything to the U. S., would give his thousand acres. He said he had been interested in flood control work for 30 years...
...National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, before opening a campaign to dissuade home-builders from stucco and brick, invited the public to invent a rallying-cry. Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews...