Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing in an outsider. So Commissioner Warren appointed as St. Paul's Chief of Police a lifelong friend named Michael Joseph Culligan, who stepped out of the lumber business to help run the reform election campaign...
Direct labor is only a fraction of the cost of a job. Secretary Ickes' public works, by his own estimate, average $2,132 for every man employed because steel, stone, cement, lumber and other heavy materials have to be bought for such projects. Obviously President Roosevelt would have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level...
...from the West, where his family's lumber kingdom lies, but from Washington, D. C. last week went news that one of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser's kidnappers had been caught, another identified. Few were the facts which Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation chose to reveal, but they were enough to make the nation cheer for its police, blush for its prisons...
Opened in 1912, Muskegon's art gallery was named in honor of that Medici of Muskegon, the late Charles Henry Hackley who left $150,000 in 1905 for it. A lumber tycoon who at one time used to strip 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good...
...eight frantic days, George's parents, members of the multi-millionaire Weyerhaeuser lumber family whose domain stretches from Wisconsin to Washington, had been dickering with "Egoist" for the boy's return while Federal and local police had reputedly kept hands off. The Weyerhaeusers had got little sleep...