Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every well-informed citizen of Kansas City knows how the late Robert Alexander Long went into the lumber business, boosted Long-Bell to be the largest lumber company in the world operating under one ownership, built the company city of Longview, Wash., and paid himself, as founder-chairman, a $60,000 salary during good years. The first years of his married life Lumberman Long passed in a $700 cottage in a corner of a lumber yard. But before he died last March, aged 83, he had erected for himself a huge 70-room porticoed limestone and marble Renaissance house-fine...
Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...
...Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when he was tried on mismanagement charges growing out of a bank chain he had formed after leaving Washington. Having watched his most famed pupil, William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, climb to power and fall with Tribune help, he retired into the lumber business...
...President Sloan has let it be known that he hoped he would not have to enter the lumber, glass, steel or other businesses which supply GM, but that if prices rose unreasonably GM could and would. Having Henry Ford's excursion into steel right before their eyes, the 62 manufacturers have no intention of forcing GM into steel, thus eliminating hardwood in the building of Fisher bodies. What GM was really doing, they thought, was attempting, in a carefully matured plan, to force the Administration to make up its mind once & for all on the stubborn problem of price-fixing...