Word: lumber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contracts at Boulder Dam and owns a 300,000-acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products Co.; 5) vice president & treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar, a big Mormon beet-sugar enterprise; 6) president of Stoddard Lumber Co. which cuts 30,000,000 ft. of timber annually, in eastern Oregon; 7) director of a chain of lumber yards; 8) director of a farm implement house. Said the White House release: "All of these concerns have successfully weathered the years of Depression...
...main line to the Supreme Court by handing down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully delegated judicial and legislative powers to the President, that the lumber business is an intrastate affair and therefore no Federal concern...
Died. Edward Wellington Backus, 73, Minneapolis lumber & paper tycoon (Backus-Brooks Co.) ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Manhattan, which he was visiting on business. Taken to the prairies as a child during the Civil War, he started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...
...Jersey in the early 1890s by way of the Columbia School of Mines, William Butler has done most of his business through intermediaries. He was first employed by the Rockefellers at the Monte Cristo gold and silver properties near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful at being squeezed by Butler, is said...
...late years, mysterious Banker Butler has expanded into other phases of the lumber business and, according to local gossip, mellowed. He is still a recluse, living in a mansion overlooking Puget Sound, taking solitary trips East and to California with his wife. And he still conducts his banking business, and his political operations, through close-mouthed Lieutenants. But ever since the death of his only son after a tonsillectomy in 1918, Banker Butler, whom few dare call "Bill" to his face, has been gradually loosening the strings on his money bags. With three others, he built a fine new hospital...