Word: lumberingly
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...modern trailer and has paced the trailer industry for 36 years. In 1915, Roy August Fruehauf, a Detroit blacksmith and wagonmaker, was persuaded by his eldest son, Harvey (then earning $7 a week), to build a trailer with hard rubber tires and open slat sides for hauling lumber. He didn't think much of it, but Harvey thought it had such possibilities that he plugged it in trade journals with the slogan: "A horse can haul more than he can carry. So can a motor truck." The slogan worked so well for Fruehauf that the company's small...
...word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than 300 net tons) to go through the Panama Canal since it was opened for business 37 years...
...Glad Eden" by Jack A. Rowel '51 is a play of atmosphere and poetic lines rather than plot. The characters are Irish immigrants who have failed in the lumber business. The play enacts the destruction of their hopes for a successful life here...
Clarence E. Hood Jr., a taciturn and glum-faced lumber dealer, who headed the pro-Truman committee until he was fired in February by Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle, denied that he knew about job selling, but he did testify that he had used Washington influence peddlers to get lumber contracts with the Government...
...rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...