Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Forest in Petersham will be continued in spite of the devastating effect of the September hurricane, Ward Shepard '10, its director, has announced. Probably 10,000,000 board feet of lumber in the experimental stands are down, according to latest estimates...
...September 27 the two-masted, 87-ton Pioneer left Halifax with 82,000 feet of lumber stowed in her holds and lashed to her decks. On the second day out, 400 miles south of Halifax, a twister traveling north from the West Indies tossed a monster wave over her, spilled tons of water into her hatches...
Most U. S. employers were in no danger. Of the 11,000,000 employed in industries under the Act, U. S. statisticians last week figured that only 750,000 (a large proportion in Southern, lumber, garment, fertilizer industries) received less than 25? an hour. Twice as many, about 1,500,000 employes, work more than 44 hours. In future years the standards will grow stricter: beginning October 24, 1939 30? & 42 hours; October 1940 30? & 40 hours; October 1945 40? and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying...
...Commissioner "Mike," though born in Manila (1896), was schooled in Spain, served in the Spanish Army, still wears a military haircut. Five years ago he became a Philippine citizen to protect the family business, Elizalde & Co. Inc., a 10,000,000-peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than the chairman of such an omni-industrial company...
...depressed automotive industry. With the Automobile Show only a month away, automobile production for the first time this year passed the 1937 level-25,554 units last week, compared to 23,222 year ago. Power output stood at a new high since November, only 2.9% under a year ago. Lumber output rose contra-seasonally and commodity prices, whose break in March 1937 first heralded Depression II, continued a rise that has been steady since early August...