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Wilson Martindale Compton, Ph.D., onetime professional baseballer. onetime economics professor at Dartmouth, is Washington contact man for the lumber industry...
Pete was thought to be the bastard of Old Man Bayliss, soundly-hated lumber tycoon who ground his workers' faces in the sawdust and worse. Pete was even suspected of being Bayliss' spy. When a lumberman was killed because of faulty machinery, Pete, who was handy, came in for a thoroughly popular licking. Pete took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization...
Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
...Last spring Adolph H. Lubin, wrecker, of Springfield, Ill., paid $25,000 for wrecking privileges at Chicago's Century of Progress, went to work on the Hall of Science. Last week, as steel girders of the Travel and Transport Building crashed. Wrecker Lubin figured he had salvaged lumber, wallboard, steel, electrical hardware, plumbing, other items, with a total value...
...Exchange has selling offices in all big U. S. cities, regulates the flow of fruit to market, maintains research laboratories, owns lumber mills (boxes), operates orange and lemon processing plants (oils and extracts), promotes the interests of the industry in general, California's in particular. It works constantly for reductions in freight rates, which, with refrigeration, represent about one-third of the wholesale value of California citrus. But most notable achievement has been to make orange juice at breakfast a national institution...