Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these words a Federal judge in Pittsburgh last week addressed five laborers, two clerks, two farmers, two engineers, two mechanics, a bank clerk, a writer, a lumber dealer, a carpenter, a plumber and a banker. He was instructing them in their duties as grand jurors...
...Author's career roughly parallels that of his ''hero," but he enters the usual demurrer against jumping to conclusions. Like Bardamu, Author Destouches fought for France, was wounded, decorated with the Médaille Militaire. After a job in French Equatorial Africa as agent for a lumber company he returned to France, got his medical license, satisfied a desire to see the U. S. by working as ship's doctor on a transatlantic liner. A more serious medico than his creature, he wrote a brilliant thesis on a pioneer in obstetrics, was sent to Africa again...
...with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under his care by contract. In that business he has become an extraordinary figure, a medical tycoon. Industrial "contract practice" is a form of health insurance which arose in isolated lumber camps and mining towns and is confined largely to lumber, mining and railroad industries. The contracting employer deducts a set sum* from each employe's wages, turns it over to a physician or hospital association. In return the physician or association agrees to furnish within stated limits all medical...
...week of last year, showing an unseasonal gain of 17%. For the seventh consecutive week carloading ran ahead not only of 1933 but also of 1932. Output of bituminous coal, prime source of U. S. power, exceeded the levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick-up in automobile production had bettered the status...
...William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...