Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow-haired little girl with her milk teeth missing stood on the Button Lumber Co.'s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before...
...other four majors coded: textiles, steel, oil, lumber...
...Italy promises to swap fruit and olive oil for Austrian timber and machinery, and put this section of the agreement into immediate effect by signing a large order for Austrian lumber last week, ordering $100,000 worth of drilling machinery to help her ceaseless search for petroleum in Italy and Albania...
...steel codes," then sped to the White House where the President signed both. Half an hour later Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to Hyde Park confident that opposition to NRA had been broken, happy to have jobs provided for 400,000 more men. (Estimated new jobs: lumber 115,000, steel...
...first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white...