Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered the Army in 1917 and got a commission, but even the Army could not stop his trading. When the brass on his post ordered some salvage lumber burned, Clint sold it instead for kindling, netted more than $15,000 for the mess fund. (Sid Richardson, meanwhile, had joined a National Guard company where he was allowed to do some oil-lease trading to bolster the outfit's funds...
...years later, when Ray was spending his summers working in a lumberyard in Tellico Plains, one of his co-workers was another lanky Monroe County boy named Estes Kefauver. Estes was a lumber handler, hoisting it into freight cars. Ray was a grader, checking lumber as it was piled in the cars. Says Tennessee's Senator Kefauver: "I was always kind of envious of him. He could stay in the boxcar where it was cool; I had to stay...
...What next for Ray Jenkins? He probably stands a chance of gaining more than any other participant in the hearings (but not financially: he is being paid $225 a week). At home, Republicans have already begun urging him to run for the U.S. Senate this year against his old lumber-loading pal Estes Kefauver. Jenkins can have the G.O.P. nomination for the asking...
Each company has had a phenomenal growth since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...
...revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that her husband is a mother...