Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks later the Albers (FlapJack) Milling Co. plant made a roaring fire with a $300,000 loss. Seattle's ball park spiraled in smoke. Executives and their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...
...Park. Most of them were in the rear. In front their teacher sat beside Driver Percy Line. The pupils were singing school songs so loudly that the driver could not hear well, and outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped with bell and safety signals, at exactly the same second that a B. & O. locomotive started to take the same crossing at top speed...
Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...