Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel" can do, is doing, will continue to do up to a purposeful point. When the Russian stomach begins to feel the pinch it is and will be convenient to execute subordinates for "plotting famine." Europe's Reation: Swamped with Eggs!" Not only wheat but barley, corn, eggs, lumber and other commodities were rumored dumped by Russia last week upon Europe. M. Le Senateur Henri Cheron, famed Finance Minister of France in the "Stabilized Franc" Cabinet two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928), cracks and scoops out a soft boiled egg nearly every morning,* white and profuse though...
...Lumber Hells." From Leningrad to Helsinki (Finland) hastened angrily Editor-Publisher George M. Cornwall of The Timberman of Portland, Ore. He had entered Russia last week to check up on Soviet lumber production, confirm or refute rumors of Russian convicts worked to death in Soviet "Lumber Hells" (TIME, Sept. 22). Said...
...under these conditions that Soviet lumber is produced which is now flooding the world markets...
Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
...industry. Diamond Match's assets at the end of last year were $27,000,000. Of this, $1 represented patents and goodwill although 20 years ago this item came to $4,000,000. Diamond has great timber stands in California, Maine, Idaho and other states. It owns many lumber yards, 40 of which are in California's Sacramento Valley. Its products have been extended as conditions in the match business became worse. Diamond Match now makes toothpicks, fence posts, golf-tees, home-building materials, waxed paper, toilet tissue. It is active in Great Britain, and some...