Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates in terms of China's silver money. Result of this dumping is likely to be deflation in China. Chinese workmen will be thrown out of work, and the probable result will be actual reduction of China's demand for foreign goods including U. S. cotton, oil, lumber...
...stubborn industrialists. Just before midnight, when the President is leaving for Hyde Park, General Johnson dashes for the White House. "Three major codes signed!" he cries. "That's a day's work!' Estimated jobs created: lumber, 115,000; steel, 50,000; oil, 240,800. Aug. 27-The automobile business becomes the fifth major industry to be codified. "My one regret," says General Johnson, "is that Henry Ford did not sign." Aug. 31-Dudley Gates of Chicago, Johnson's right hand man for industry, resigns. Mr. Gates believed in vertical unions, rather than the oldstyle horizontal unions...
Died. Richard Beatty Mellon, 75, financier, charitarian, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, younger brother of Andrew William Mellon; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Sons of canny old Thomas Mellon, young Richard and young Andrew took a lucrative flyer in lumber, skipped nimbly into their father's bank, which became Mellon National in 1902, today has resources of $236,000,000. They reached for oil, coal, aluminum, railroads, power, glass, made profits and plowed them back, built up an $8,000,000,000 empire. When Brother Andrew became Secretary of the Treasury, Richard took hold of both reins...
Last week became known the names of four lumber company executives who died of amebic dysentery following a trade convention in Chicago last June: President Wells Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., Boston; President Archie Mandert, Canadian General Lumber Co., Toronto; Sales Manager A. C. Long Jr., Great Southern Lumber Co., Bogalusa, La.; Mark Reed, Mill Co., Seattle...
...through no less than 60 industrial agreements affecting the work and wages of 11,000,000 people, NRA last week completed its four-month shakedown cruise. Result of the shakedown was a re-organization of NRA into five permanent branches: Extractive Industries (including motors and shipping); Construction & Machinery (including lumber and metal products); Chemicals, Leather & Other Manufactures; Trades. Services, Textiles & Clothing. Each now has its own administrator, who acts as a deputy to General Johnson. General Johnson personally takes over the fifth department: Compliance. Structure of the Compliance Board is based on 26 district officers of the Department of Commerce...