Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time museum, court house, army barracks, navy storehouse, lumber room and fire house, Holden Chapel, the Glee Club's present home, has hardly filled its donors wish: to promote "true Religion, I mean Sobriety, Righteousness and Godliness." For over a century, Harvard students had worshipped in private, until 1744 when Samuel Holden left 400 pounds "to build a Chapple for the use of ye College." But after just twenty years, services moved to Harvard Hall and Holden began its secular marathon...
After a short stint as a lumber shed, it housed the local fire engine, bought just after Harvard Hall burned to the ground. The Faculty voted, in 1779, "that Kendal be directed to see that the College Engine and Bucketts be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." Undergraduate Kendal set to work and organized the Engine Society "for exercising the Engine." And for over forty years, the Engine Society watched all major blazes, invariably doing more harm than good...
Died. James Aloysius Robert ("Honest Bob") Quinn, 84, veteran baseball executive, who went broke as boss of the Boston Red Sox (1923-33) before selling out to Lumber Millionheir Tom Yawkey, later became president of the Boston Braves (1936-45), director of the National Baseball Museum (1948-52); in Providence...
...Trade? The Japanese should know that Communist trade rarely works out as advertised, and usually contains more propaganda than produce. Last year's barter deal with China for $170 million in raw materials such as iron ore and lumber in return for finished products from Japan has yet to produce its first delivery. Nevertheless, Japan's economy is so shaky that businessmen are clamoring for more business with China despite U.S. pressures. They think the fact that trade would strengthen China in the cold war is not as important as the fact that Sino-Japanese trade would also...
...LUMBER prices are picking up again in the Northwest in anticipation of heavy spring building. While the market is still down from a year ago, demand has pushed prices up 10% from this winter's low levels...