Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Condon the sleeping suit worn by the baby on the night of the abduction. 5 ) Hauptmann did only a few days' work after March 1932, yet lived in mod est luxury. 6) The ladder by which the kidnapper entered the nursery was made of wood from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone can in one way or another identify Hauptmann with the crime. 8) The crime...
...Thousands of people bought lumber from the Bronx lumber yard. Thousands more could buy such nails as were found in the ladder...
Another good text for breadline pictures was the fact that Warm Springs, Ga. was last week swarming with the suppliers of the lumber from which President Roosevelt will build his 1935 relief structure. Big problem was how much money to spend and where...
...jury consisted of the president of the Peru, Ill. school board, a dealer in industrial diamonds, an insurance salesman, a young bookbinder, an unemployed telephone engineer, an automobile dealer, a coal salesman, a dairy farmer, the mayor of Millington, Ill., an employe of a grain and lumber company, an unemployed salesman of office supplies, a grocer. Two were in their 50's, six were in their 40's, two in their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment...
...Bank has challenged the Frazier-Lemke Act after a farmer owing the bank $7,063 invoked the law in order to save his property from foreclosure. In Tennessee 600 manufacturers of hard wood have got a decision from a Federal Judge that, in selling 40,000,000 feet of lumber to Fisher Body Corp. at some 15% below code prices, they did no legal wrong. In Oklahoma a Federal judge dismissed indictments against two automobile dealers charged with buying used cars and selling new cars at below-code prices. Grounds: that the sale of an automobile from a man living...