Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
Marriner Stoddard Eccles grew up in Logan, Utah, a rich & pious Mormon- grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a lumber-banking-utilities tycoon. At 19, graduated from Brigham Young College, he went as a missionary to Scotland. He came home, put his capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles...
...their inheritance to paying off the mortgage on the sisters' farm, set off to shift for themselves. Aged 20, a brawny big youngster, Jesse found himself in Dallas, Tex. He had no money but he did have a well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations...
...have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper and paper to International Falls, where he organized his own bank, formed his own telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment...
Herreshoff workers had been waiting for weeks. On its own initiative the company had laid down the new boat's lines in the mold loft, ordered lumber and lead. On the syndicate's say-so the first frames for the hull were bent last week...