Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first step in concentrating in History is getting rid of History 1, Government 1, and Economics A. All three of these must be taken, for the concentrator has really joined the Division of History, Government, and Economics. They are, in fact, "lumber" courses, bulky foundations for the real concentration which comes afterward. Yet they are interesting in themselves...
...bankers, the State Senate voted to make Governor Comstock banking dictator.* The House, wary, postponed action. Breezy, baldish, bespectacled Bill Comstock has long headed the State Democratic organization. His election last autumn was his fourth run for Governor. Since the Depression he has lost his personal fortune, made in lumber; his salary ($5,000 reduced voluntarily to $4,000) was garnisheed under an old judgment last fortnight...
...marks in (but not out of) Germany. As an immediate result, British banks possessing 35,000,000 blocked marks offered to transfer this sum to the Berlin bank account of the Soviet State last week, in return for delivery in Britain of 35,000,000 marks worth of Russian lumber. Other results will be the purchase of German bonds & real estate with previously blocked marks and the payment of such marks to tourists in Germany against letters of credit and travelers' checks...
...Umanskaya. They may or may not have tried to grow & deliver as much grain as the Five-Year Planners thought they should. Last week with no exception every Cossack man, woman and child in the area was bundled off "to work near the Arctic Circle" in unspecified mines and lumber camps...
Technocracy. To theorists like Messrs. Rautenstrauch, Jones, Ackerman and Chase, technocracy is a serious effort to collate facts which may show whither industrial civilization is moving. To thousands of discontented technicians employed (or discharged) by oil. lumber, automotive and other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...