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Word: lumber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat better than employment news were reports that lumber production, carloadings, power production, steel ingot production, although far below last year, were up last week, or better than the trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lighter Envelopes | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...where he had the luck to know a little girl named Mabel Dodge (later Luhan). who has recorded that his nickname was "Grouch" Goodyear. A Yaleman, class of '99. a Wartime colonel and commander of the 81st Field Artillery, "Grouch" Goodyear is president of Great Southern Lumber Co. and board chairman of Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad Co. He is also president of the Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Demonstration | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Jagged descending lines on some charts tended to level off, or even rise, last week. Barren's business index for the second week in succession stood at 53.7% of normal. Steel production was virtually static at 30% of capacity; lumber-up from 166,926,000 board feet fortnight ago to 179,322,000 last week; automobiles - down from 53,385 units fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stand-Off | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...business indices last week there was evidence of little but stagnation. Steel production rose from 33% to 35% of capacity, highest point since November. Car loadings rose a mite in expectation of the new rates. But lumber output was off 6% for the week, power production 2%, oil production 0.8%, soft coal 8%. Bank clearings were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where & Why | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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