Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prejudice! Graft! My tactics a bombshell! Prosecution frightened! My case is over! These were the jubilant cries last week of Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, 49, unofficial Baptist Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself (TIME, July 26 et seq.). The now deceased had ventured to expostulate with the parson for maligning D. E. Chipps' friend, the Mayor of Fort Worth. Pastor Norris, who has since been at liberty on bail, preaching weekly to vast throngs, has now secured a change of venue...
Their California office assembled 600 workmen, steam shovels, concrete mixers, derricks, lumber, steel, wires and glass. They had a 70-acre field to cover with buildings. Austin's planning department functioned smoothly. Supply dealers (mostly in Los Angeles) moved their materials on schedule. Men labored from dawn to dusk. In just 70% working days from the moment ground was broken this new cinema "city" was ready for First National Pictures to begin production...
...eyes, "I started in as a Freshman at the age of 11 and my education occupied the age of 11 and my education occupied the greater part of my life. contrary to general opinion, I did not start in to 'follow the sea" but devoted myself to the lumber business on the Pacific coast...
...hours later Mrs. Wilson was in Vienna. There she was met by an intimate friend, Miss Eleanor McCarthy, New Orleans lumber heiress, able aviatrix...
Ford. Last week, the Ford Motor Co. and its numerous allied industries, including coal mines and lumber camps, announced the adoption of a five-day weekly schedule as a permanent policy. (The Ford railroads, however, will continue their regular schedule.) The eight- hour day is still in force, and the Ford workers are expected to make as much in five days as they formerly...