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...ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...putting on its hat to go home the President extracted his biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital...
...producers use chicory. Little producers use roasted cereals. The coffee code specifies that when cereal is used for filler the package must be so labeled. No such notice is required for chicory fillers. The use of "that common abomination, the basing-point trick" works to the advantage of big lumber millers. In one case a New England contractor was required to pay mill costs plus a "phantom" rail carrying charge on a 400-mi. haul, although the mill was only 72 mi. away. Same practice was prevalent in the cement industry. Biggest Darrow blast was directed against the retail code...
Last week the first transcontinental trains ever to pass through Denver chufied through the Moffatt Tunnel ("Gateway to Nowhere") and on to the West Coast- two double-header freights loaded with Nebraska corn, Colorado coal, stoves, grits, lumber, hoboes. Instead of going around through Pueblo to the south or Cheyenne to the north, they bored under the Continental Divide, rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake...
...rivalry of two gangs of Viennese schoolboys for the possession of a lumber yard forms the background of the story, which moves smoothly through the usual series of incidents to a powerful though somewhat everdone conclusion...