Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this there was some justification. Steel mill operation held at 84% of capacity, a high figure but disappointing because a rise would be normal. The Iron Age warned its industry of ''revised estimates of the volume of autumn steel business." Lumber output dropped more than seasonally, with orders last week running 20% less than for the same week last year. And commodity prices were down-winter wheat from a 1937 high of $1.29 to $1.02 a bu.; corn from $1.16 to 97? a bu.; cotton from nearly 14? to just above...
...Hong Kong and Singapore, until docks groaned. A typhoon, described as the worst in ten years, caused further losses to shippers by wrecking the Hong Kong water front last week, sinking some 20 ships in the harbor and ruining great piles of exposed goods (see p. 18). No lumber, a prime Pacific Coast export, was moving from the U. S. to either combatant, and Japan, conserving her resources, stopped her huge purchases of U. S. scrap iron, probably anticipating that the war would end before it could be made into munitions. The U. S. cotton farmer who last season sold...
...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
Last week readers of the daily Press and Union of Atlantic City, N. J. perused such advertisements, noted that "the sponsors of this message" included Atlantic City Gas Co.; Freund Brothers, Opticians; Shill Rolling Chair Co.; West Side Lumber Co.; Brooks & Idler, Printers. Atlantic City citizens had seen a succession of such ads, but the author of them remained anonymous. He, the only "Go-To-Church Editor" of a U. S. daily, was Robert Earl Peifer. display advertising manager of the two newspaper...
...Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control...