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...first business before Monday's meeting was the election of various town officials-among them Fence-viewer, Surveyor of Lumber and Bark, and Clam Commissioner. The next items in the warrant covered every sort of town problem: among them a plant to install parking meters in the center of town, appropriations for the repair of the Town Wharf, the need for a new fire engine. Each article in the warrant had been considered by the town's Finance Committee, a part appointive, part elective board, and this committee made recommendations to the meeting...
...National Students Association is planning the following work camp tours: Finland, Norway, Denmark; England, Finland, Sweden, Denmark; England, Yougoslavia; Denmark; Poland, Finland. Also, the following work camps are planned: British Harvest Camps, Germany, Finnish Lumber Camp, France, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe. The costs of the workcamp tours range from $454 to $505, the workcamps from...
After a vaulting horse had been built from odds & ends of lumber, Peter and John hid inside it, while other prisoners carried it outdoors and set it up in front of a guard box. Almost every afternoon for the next four months the P.O.W.s vaulted tirelessly while Peter and John took turns burrowing away with a trowel at their ever-lengthening tunnel. The loose sand was packed into bags made from trouser legs. The bags were hung inside the wooden horse while the men were digging; later the sand was scattered in latrines, tomato patches, or under the prisoners...
...hoping for another $100 million from the Export-Import Bank. All of this, however, fell short of the $200 million which was the minimum Indonesian estimate of the help they would need the first year. To attract the investment of private capital, Indonesia is counting on its vast untapped lumber resources in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo...
From the time he took over his father's lumber company and foundry in 1930, Kurth sought ways to make them bigger. Since his Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. depended on outside companies for its castings, Kurth set up Texas Foundries, Inc. as his own supplier. It soon became the biggest Southern producer of malleable iron castings. The two companies now have combined sales of some $17.5 million a year...