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...Fair ? ? ? wages bill. I want to know ? Does it apply to my business. After reading volumes and listening to hundreds of opinions, I am still definitely confused. I manufacture upholstered chairs. I have ceased shipping interState. I get most of my raw materials from out of State, such as lumber, fabrics, springs, tacks, etc. Does the fact that getting my materials through interState Commerce make me subject to this act even if I don't ship interState...
...Heaven ... we come to Thee with the feeling that perhaps we are menaced by something that is beyond our control, that has been imposed upon us by authorities that perhaps have not investigated as carefully as should have been investigated the elements that make up not only this lumber industry, but all industry throughout the whole United States. We ask, O Lord, therefore, that Thou wilt be sympathetic with us as we study our problems, and as we come to Thee for guidance, wilt Thou give it to us? In the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord...
...apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were employed in pecan shelling, tobacco stemming, lumber and bagging...
...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...