Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge, just as they may over-rule the one President. The two-thirds of each of these two bodies come nearer being a correct expression of the best judgment of the best people of the forty-eight states and better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present civilization, and let us not continue the delays experienced in adopting the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth amendments...
...spray. It was perhaps 100 ft. in diameter and SO ft. high. The spout travelled rapidly northward for about a mile in the course of five minutes and then disappeared. Fortunately, no incoming liners or plying ferry boats were in its path. It whisked a few pieces of lumber from a passing barge but otherwise no damage was done. It was the first waterspout ever observed in New York Harbor, and the good burghers of the city were inclined to view it with alarm...
...increase came in all commodities handled except forest products (i. e., lumber) and ores, and was most noticeable in coal and miscel laneous freight...
Bandits captured and held for ransom one R. T. Berrinean, an American, General Manager of a lumber and turpentine company. U. S. Counselor of Embassy H. F. Schoenfeld reported the matter to the Mexican Foreign Office...
...organ in the world should be installed there. The largest "orchestral organ" in the world is soon to be assembled in the great Hollywood Bowl, a natural open-air amphitheatre. The largest pipe in this musical monster will be 64 feet long. This single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second-the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful electric bellows...