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They were the U.S. oil industry, the lumber industry; the coal interests, the copper interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...
...gotten something more tangible than pleasure out of his wartime career. There was talk of packets of $1,000 and $3,000 sent him from the Garsson's Washington office. There was the peculiar circumstance that May had endorsed a check as president of the Cumberland Lumber Co., which the Garssons paid for lumber which was never delivered or even...
...British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers wading through waist-deep water, carrying boxes and sacks on their heads. When lumber was required for constructing small bridges or building houses, Patel arranged for it all without making a single approach to the Government. It seemed a miracle to Indians when all the lumber arrived on the scene in the needed sizes. By the time the Bombay provincial representatives got there...
...Rahman's sympathy. The British had rescued him from his father's disgrace, restored his family lands, given him a splendid palace. They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped trees with as much zeal as if they had been infidel heads...
Tunnel to Friendship. Argentina is predominantly agricultural, Chile a mountainous country of mines and forests. Their economies do not compete, although both harbor enough young, hothouse industries to preclude a 100% customs union. Chile, fighting inflation (TIME, Dec. 16), welcomed the ready cash to expand her industries-lumber, power, coal-welcomed still more a chance to buy cheaply from Argentina's ample supply of meat and other foodstuffs for her undernourished masses. Argentina badly needs Chile's coal, iron and copper to carry out Peron's ambitious five-year plan...