Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which...
...toothpaste, shaving cream, etc.), and paperboard for "set-up" boxes (for candy, shoes, etc.). Container Corp. dates from 1926, when Philadelphia Paper Manufacturing Co. was merged with the paper board division of Chicago Mill & Lumber Co., a business founded in 1881 by Hermann Paepcke. Founder Paepcke stayed on as president until his young son Walter, four years out of Yale, stepped into his father's shoes in 1921. When Container Corp. was formed, Walter Paepcke became its president at 29. For his executive vice president he had an old-line boxmaker named John Paul Brunt, onetime head...
...Africa and Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
Last week Senator Hugo Lafayette Black chose to give this whole delicate question a public airing in his Senate Lobby Investigating Committee.* Up for investigation was John Henry Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told...
...Canada's Price Bros. & Co. began a mighty career in lumber, later branched into paper. Its own printed currency was long accepted locally as legal tender. Were Price Bros. banknotes circulating today they would find few takers. Competetive ferocity in a traditionally ferocious industry ground down newsprint prices from the post-War $110 per ton to a Depression $40. Short on profitable U. S. contracts, long on overhead, Price Bros. defaulted interest payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been...