Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Bunyan. famed superman of lumber-camp legend, had been a hockey player, he would have liked a game that was played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...
Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production...
...revolted. After prolonged proceedings, the Federal Trade Commission issued a cease & desist order in 1924. Pittsburgh Plus was then replaced by the basing point system, which substituted a number of cities for Pittsburgh. Other industries now using basing point prices, which may also, include "phantom" freight charges, are cement, lumber, paper, flour, sugar...
Surety bonding turns upon the completion of contracts. This business covers everything from the delivery of lumber to the painting of a house. National Surety also writes all manner of burglary business, insuring private homes, stocks of merchandise, paymasters, even covering the breakage of plate glass windows, doors, and glass signs. It does not handle any accident insurance, fire insurance or life insurance. Last year National Surety Corp. took in $9,134,000 in premiums, paid out $3,424,000 in losses. It made $959,000 on its policies. It also made $302,000 selling securities, received $458,000 from...
When he went to Washington in 1934 as an Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Eccles' business interests included the presidencies of a $2,000,000 milk product company, a big Oregon lumber concern, a huge construction company, and the $50,000,000 Eccles group of banks. In addition he was vice president of Amalgamated Sugar Co., a director of a railroad, a hotel company, a farm implement company, a retail lumber organization. All this was achieved in less than 20 years from the time he set up Eccles Investment Co. to manage...