Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation out of unfriendly hands into his own, was already committed to major changes as it began hearings on NRA's renewal...
Appropriately enough, Author Ferber's latest run-of-the-mill is about pulp. Come and Get It is the story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat...
...first twenty years of its existence Phelps Dodge Corp. sold cotton and tin. When in 1833 a brand new warehouse collapsed on the heads of his fusty clerks, pious old Anson G. Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York newspapers: "Owing to the great increase of our Copper and Railroad business in the West, we have been obliged to give up the selling of all metals except Copper...
...Flagstad sings Isolde and Brünnhilde, the big heroic roles for which she was chiefly imported. But she is approaching the ordeal with rare calm and self-possession. Back stage she knits constantly, "just like your President's wife." As Mrs. Henry Johansen, wife of a wealthy lumber merchant, her Metropolitan earnings mean little to her. "If I am a big success," she said last week, "I shall come back next year. Otherwise I stay in Norway...
Creator of Philbert is Frank Owen, 28, an easy-going smalltown Texan who rousted about in oil fields, refineries, lumber camps, until he got a job cartooning sports and editorials on the Dallas News. He went East, free-lanced for Judge, Life, Satevepost, New York American, landed a place on Collier's two years ago to do general cartooning. Philbert came to life when Cartoonist Owen discovered he "had been drawing him all the time and didn't know it." Many of his best ideas come from his pretty young wife, Swedish-born Vera Blomquist. The Owens live...