Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a Scotsman who was taken to Utah by his immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk...
Wholly ignored was the fact that the stockmarket might profit from a rest, that many a low-priced issue not included in the averages was still rising smartly. Also ignored was a good gain over last year in weekly carloadings, notable of basic goods like lumber (up 31%), coke (up 32%), ore (up 101%). And RFChairman Jesse Jones allowed the private banking house of Kidder, Peabody & Co. to underwrite an $8,718,000 Maine Central R. R. refunding plan instead of doing it himself...
Wilson Martindale Compton, Ph.D., onetime professional baseballer. onetime economics professor at Dartmouth, is Washington contact man for the lumber industry...
Pete was thought to be the bastard of Old Man Bayliss, soundly-hated lumber tycoon who ground his workers' faces in the sawdust and worse. Pete was even suspected of being Bayliss' spy. When a lumberman was killed because of faulty machinery, Pete, who was handy, came in for a thoroughly popular licking. Pete took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization...
Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...