Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoes (20% to 30%). He downed the duty on egg plant (3? to 1½? per lb.), green peppers (3? to 2½? per lb.), crude feldspar ($1 to 50? per ton), turned shoes (20% to 10%), window glass (25%). He left unchanged the tariff on (among other things), lumber, cement, pens, Spanish moss, pineapples, snap beans, cucumbers, okra, fresh tomatoes and lima beans...
...only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...
...engaged her to take pictures of their Terminal Tower project. Then FORTUNE sought her, brought her to Manhattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her eye led her never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks...
...Ajaccio General Fournier handed a reward of $4,000 to one Jean Simonetti, lumber contractor, for killing a bandit and blackmailer named Bartoli. Puffed with Corsican pride, Contractor Simonetti took the money and said to the General...
...Clifton Jones. Missouri-born Negro who had been teaching in a small Mississippi school, had come to Piney Woods to found a Negro school. He had already taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first building, Founder Jones called a public meeting. Result: a subscription list headed by $50 and 40 acres of land from an aged ex-slave named Taylor, first contribution to the Piney Woods Country Life School...