Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemies said, something of a demagogue, bitter and sectional. But he was fearless, and brilliant in attack on the floor of the House. The tariff was his home territory and he knew it like the proverbial book. He made his name as a Democrat by attacking the free lumber plank in the Democratic platform of 1908. He strengthened his posi-tion in the following year by his attack on "Cannonism" and the tariff...
...there is an increasing demand for skilled labor that parallels the general demand for unskilled labor and farm workers. In New York every industry is undermanned-as is the case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that will enable union leaders to reestablish the positions they lost in the years...
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace remains in Washington furnishing information to the special Senate Committee which is investigating timber problems in the United States. He urges greater fire protection, more replanting, and partial exemption of taxes for forest areas in order to insure the nation's lumber supply...
...opinion of competent critics, the building program for the current year is endangered by rising costs of materials. Despite present high prices, still higher ones for lumber, plaster and cement are being predicted. Brick, however, the usually reliable barometer of building material costs, remains stable at present rates, despite interruption to deliveries owing to the frozen Hudson...
...Women who sew and bake and in the spring hoe and rake, and not afraid the garden to make. Those who are pleased with a good team and lumber wagon to go to church on Sunday, and who will be satisfied with three good meals a day and a warm home and not afraid to call the chickens. Not one hat will threaten one with divorce courts when you don't purchase a new hat every spring and fall...