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Died. Mrs. Kiel (Anne Randall) Heald, 88, widow of a California lumber dealer, sister of the late Mrs. Jesse Clark (Hulda Randall) Hoover, aunt of President Hoover and of Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of the Engineering School of Stanford University; after long illness, at East Palo Alto, Calif., where she had lived 30 years...
...Steel" can do, is doing, will continue to do up to a purposeful point. When the Russian stomach begins to feel the pinch it is and will be convenient to execute subordinates for "plotting famine." Europe's Reation: Swamped with Eggs!" Not only wheat but barley, corn, eggs, lumber and other commodities were rumored dumped by Russia last week upon Europe. M. Le Senateur Henri Cheron, famed Finance Minister of France in the "Stabilized Franc" Cabinet two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928), cracks and scoops out a soft boiled egg nearly every morning,* white and profuse though...
Equally panicky but less picturesque than M. Chéron, England's Daily Mail, organ of Red-baiting Viscount Rothermere, declared that Soviet lumber was being offered "on the quiet" in London last week for $55.20 per "standard" (a standard equals 200 board feet; a board foot is a piece of lumber one foot square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value...
Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 48, was born in Norway, soon was taken to St. Paul. About ten years ago he conceived of celotex, made from the fibre of sugarcane, as a substitute for lumber. He organized the company whose phenomenal growth in sales has added unto it many a subsidiary. Behind the expansion was Mr. Dahlberg, shrewd in matters of manufacturing and sales. Also, he is generally credited with being the architect of its financial structure. In the past decade he is said to have made...
...Lumber Hells." From Leningrad to Helsinki (Finland) hastened angrily Editor-Publisher George M. Cornwall of The Timberman of Portland, Ore. He had entered Russia last week to check up on Soviet lumber production, confirm or refute rumors of Russian convicts worked to death in Soviet "Lumber Hells" (TIME, Sept. 22). Said...