Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
Early one morning a clerk in the commissary at Logtown?tiny lumber settle-ment 70 miles inland from Puerto Cabezas ?spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into...
...speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including Soviet coal, wood pulp, lumber of all kinds, asbestos, furs...
Other of Mr. Brunt's charges are that Mr. Paepcke's interests as president of Chicago Mill & Lumber Corp. conflict with his interests in Container Corp.; that Container Corp.'s policy of big volume at low prices has been disastrous, hurt its product; that the management should be held liable for buying the company's own stock at prices higher than the present market...
Foreign diplomatic or consular representatives of countries which have recognized the Soviet Union were challenged to make similar investigations. "But," Comrade Molotov added, "the Soviet will not allow foreign governmental investigation committees" - i. e., no U. S. congressional committee will be allowed in Red lumber camps. Sixty thousand Soviet convicts are employed in the lumber regions building roads and canals, stated the Prime Minister...