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Profits were ½? a peg, paid by the Marine Corps. It furnished the lumber; heat, light, power and rent were supplied by the prison, all free. Hundreds of fellow convicts were hired by the convict capitalists for as little as 40? a day. In this capitalistic Utopia, with no overhead, the pegs rolled out, the profits rolled in. There was only one catch; the four hobby shop owners are serving life terms for murder...
...their wake they left 55 ships sunk or damaged, 91 aircraft destroyed or damaged; hangars, barracks, administration buildings, mills, lumber yards, radio and radar stations, all well bombed...
King & Matriarch. Author Ferber manipulates her old patterns with practiced ease. Vaughan Melendy, rich and rugged lumber-salmon king, is the spectacular Northwest, and vice versa. "Born into this gargantuan northwest region of giant forests, limitless waters, vast mountains, fertile valleys, he himself blended into the lavish picture and was one with it. . . . He digested it like the benevolent giant...
...dean of the College of Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
...company town of Westwood, Calif, (pop.: 3.500), but also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits. It was one of the biggest lumber deals in U.S. history...