Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago (a city that really symbolizes all metropolises) just before World War I, Jungle of Cities is about a duel between two men: Shlink (Nicholas Lawrence), the rich and heartless owner of a lumber mill and George Garga (Charles Puckette), the poor and lively library attendant. Spying the youthful fighting spirit in Garga at the play's beginning Shlink hands his business over to Garga, giving the poor agrarian boy a shot at material comfort and power. Garga nabs the offer while Shlink takes on the country boy's family obligations. The switch ultimately turns Garga's family relation...
Valenzuela feels more secure now that he is working for himself, in a shop that he built from scrap lumber. He got a permit to sell used tires from a local policeman who knows the Valenzuelas are illegal. The officer assured the family that they can report crimes without fear of exposure. Los Angeles Police Commander William Booth explains, "If someone is a victim of crime, we need to know about it, and it's not our policy to inquire about their status...
...year was 1962. America was weathering its worst session since the Great Depression. Unemployment soared; interest rates fluctuated in the high double digits. The beleagured construction industry mailed piles of useless lumber to Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, and Capitol Hill clamored for the Fed chief's hide...
...didn't make my bed in all my years of college, and I never dusted, or swept a rug," says Downes, retired from a lumber company which bears his name. "We lived so well, it's incredible...
...aerospace and engineering company. The deal is valued at between $4.5 billion and $5 billion. The new company, Allied Signal, will have annual revenues of more than $16 billion. Hennessy, 57, a former Roman Catholic seminarian in the Holy Cross congregation and the son of a West Roxbury, Mass., lumber salesman, will run what will be the 16th-largest U.S. industrial company. Shumway will be vice chairman of the new company. Dingman will be named president and in 1990 will succeed Hennessy as chief executive...