Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...
...walking out, 400,000 workers had already done so. Much of industrial Massachusetts was without transportation because its bus and trolley workers had walked off the job; Governor Maurice J. Tobin seized the bus and trolley lines, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The West Coast lumber industry was still stalemated by striking A.F. of L. lumbermen. In New York City, workers in pasteurization plants threatened a strike that would leave the city's 7½ million without milk...
Across the U.S., from Montauk Point to Malibu Beach, the tide of labor unrest seethed angrily. In oil, automobiles, coal, lumber, textiles and many another industry, there were strikes, shutdowns, and threats of strikes. At one time last week 420,000 workers were idle. While many an industrial plant ran at less than full power because it could not staff its machinery, the first blows of violence rose ominously...
...Pacific Northwest, 60,000 A.F. of L. lumber workers were...
...More than 75% of its orders for cotton and wool textiles, leather, lumber, shoes...