Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might take a little lumber and some liquor." Even on Canada's one big export to the U. S., newsprint and wood pulp, there could be no concession because that already comes in duty-free. In return for lumber and liquor Canada was not willing to take any greatly increased
Other income will be from 500 bu. of sweet potatoes, from lumber cut by a sawmill installed a few months ago. "I begged the President to let me plant a little cotton," said the employe of the man who has cut the South's cotton production 20%, "but he just gave me that big broad smile and shook his head. So of course I didn't raise any cotton...
...Brown. Extending nearly three miles along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business...
...purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last of its original lumber business...
Cliff Buyers. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns a railroad, lumber tracts, coal mines, chemical works, charcoal plants. It has a large fleet of Great Lakes freighters. Normally it is also a producer of pig iron. But first & foremost Cleveland-Cliffs is a miner of iron ores. Its ore reserves in Minnesota rank second only to those of U. S. Steel Corp. And for that if no other reason Cleveland-Cliffs is a highly desirable property in any steelman's eyes. Whenever steel mergers are rumored, its name is sure...