Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Brice P. Disque, in lumber and finance since he resigned from the Army in 1919, was elected executive director of the Anthracite Institute...
...condemnation proceeding at Madison, Va. the lumber company officials swore that the Cabinet camp, with its four luxurious cabins costing $20,000, had been built without their permission, that no lease had been sought or signed. The Rapidan Marine force of 120 men under Major Earl Long had also squatted on their property for a year before bothering about a lease.* When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants. The lumber company had to pay taxes increased by improvements...
Said he: "We [Finns] cannot withdraw from the [lumber] market. We must fight for it. But people say that we cannot compete with Russia owing to the economic methods employed by that country. We must, however, do so, and we can do so with hopes of success. We have many technical advantages. Our forests are better situated, our waterways are better and shorter, our men and horses are better provisioned, and the skill and efficiency of our workers are higher than those of the conscripted workers of Russia...
Ironically Mr. Knickerbocker notes that even fight-minded, lumber-growing Finland bought $2.000.000 worth of Soviet timber last year, although "this, it was explained to me, was nearly all bought by one man, who has been severely criticized for doing...
...Columbian on Carbon 810 560 Commercial Credit 1,087 865 Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines) 391 215 Murray Corp. (motor bodies) 295 204 D National Candy 313 112 Newport Co. (chemicals) 426 240 Patino Mines (tin) 150 D 163 D Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt 778 3 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron...