Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumber, Soft (1,000 Ft.) Free Free...
...amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long staple cotton duty...
Once more in command, Old Guardsmen were prepared to force fresh votes on lumber, aluminum, hides, shoes, leather, oil?all the items on which the Coalition had won primary victories, and on which it now faced ultimate defeat...
...Paris. Germany's will-to-work, so vital to reparation payments and the stability of Europe, has put it ahead of France as a U. S. customer. In the first eleven months of 1929, the U. S. sent to Germany $369,256,518 worth of goods (oil, copper, lumber, fruits, lard, lead, chemicals), whereas U. S. exports to France were only $239,741,535 (cotton, oil, machinery, wheat). Of German goods the U. S. took $239,493,977 worth (iron, steel, coal tars, cinema film, toys, paper), while U. S. purchases from France were down...
Hangars are another rarity in the Dominion. Planes are parked out-of-doors. In winter, mechanics build themselves a three-walled shack of lumber or snow, run the nose of the plane in, drape the opening with tarpaulins. An oil stove keeps motors from freezing, the mechanics warm enough to work...