Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...rimmed Gerardo Machado y Morales was an officer of the Santa Clara subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated to Cuba by the American Red Cross after the 1926 hurricane, was manager of Chase National Bank's Havana branch (1927-31). The Chase Bank first loaned the Machado Government $30,000,000, paid off by an issue of gold , bonds payable in 1945; then another...
...upon the taxpayers necessitated by such a government expenditure would be offset by other advantages. All classes of laborers are given work. Furthermore, a naval program is a stimulus to a wide variety of industries, so that employment is possible for the man who works in the mines, the lumber yards as well as the steel mills and many others." Mr. Adams cited the example of France, which he said was now the most prosperous nation in the depression. "France has made tremendous outlays for army and navy. The question is not merely an economic one, for the United States...
They became Italians after the War when victorious Italy claimed Istria at the Peace Conference to help "make the Adriatic an Italian lake." Italy cared little about the grapes, cattle and lumber that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
...Cudahy, Wis., last week had on its books $1,360,000 of unfilled orders for bottling machinery and George J. Meyer himself wrote out and mailed a $5,000 check to the Democratic National Committee congratulating it because "at least one political party kept its pre-election campaign promise." Lumber prices in Chicago were reported up 10% to 20% on requirements for beer barrels and cases for bottled beer. All cooperage factories, like bottle factories, were last week running at capacity...