Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead, a heroic survivor who has lost a leg in that comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later project with alarm but, of course, the Go-Getter goes & gets. Amiable, rapid and pleasant to watch, The Go-Getter's sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor...
...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber Co., is now one of the biggest independent oil operators in East Texas...
Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course...
...Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived in the U. S. with a degree in engineering from the University of Glasgow. With Great Northern Ry. from 1910 to 1936, Mr. Kerr was assistant to the vice president in charge of operations and president of coal and lumber subsidiaries in Montana when Mr. Loomis hired him as his assistant last year. Reserved, 53-year old President Kerr lives in Manhattan, enjoys most "just being in Montana...