Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Numerous examples might be cited, but an outstanding case comes to mind. A well-known lumber company on the Pacific Coast within the past six years purchased from the Government at a total cost of approximately $400,000, and under easy credit terms, a fleet of eight vessels estimated to have cost the Government in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. These ships are now engaged from the Pacific Northwest and California via the Panama Canal to Porto Rico and Buenos Aires, principally for the purpose of marketing lumber. This firm was thus granted distinct monopolistic privileges by the Government...
...these advantages were insufficient, the Government then awarded a so-called mail subsidy contract, under the provisions of which a total of $759,000 has been paid to the lumber company's steamship line for the "carriage of mail" that actually brought the Post Office Department only $274 in postage...
Tariffs. Then the Senate snagged on the bill's four tariff items-oil, coal copper lumber. Progress was halted under a deluge of angry oratory. Night sessions failed to break the deadlock. Republican Leader Watson dolefully announced: "Adjournment is still a long way over the horizon...
Amid great acrimony the oil and coal tariffs were finally voted (43-to-37) and (39-to-34) into the bill. Then the Senate stalled on copper and lumber, bitterness of the antitariff opposition rose to a startling pitch. As a reprisal Senator Tydings engulfed the chamber with 504 tariff amendments to the tax bill. Shouted...
Died. Robert Dollar, 88, shipping tycoon, "Captain" through courtesy; in his San Rafael, Calif, home; of heart trouble aggravated by intestinal infection and cold. Scotland-born, he began his career as a cook's boy in a Canadian lumber camp, later became the owner of great timber stands in California. Not until 1901, when he was 57, did he turn to the sea. His first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants...