Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long went into the lumber business, boosted Long-Bell to be the largest lumber company in the world operating under one ownership, built the company city of Longview, Wash., and paid himself, as founder-chairman, a $60,000 salary during good years. The first years of his married life Lumberman Long passed in a $700 cottage in a corner of a lumber yard. But before he died last March, aged 83, he had erected for himself a huge 70-room porticoed limestone and marble Renaissance house-fine even in a finer place than Kansas City. The house alone cost...
...chiseling there was, particularly on prices, and enough to annoy the responsible lumberman who lived up to the code. Prices were revised in July, some up, some down. The upped prices hit the hardwood men's best customer, the automobile industry...
...built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
...headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended up by giving the world a new standard of aircraft performance. To him went the award for "successful pioneering and achievement in aircraft manufacture and air transportation." Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman, "Bill" Boeing went to Yale, left to learn the logging business. Taught how to fly by Glenn L. Martin in 1915, he bought a machine, decided he could build a better one. In Seattle he established a one-room factory with 20 employes. Today, with more than 1,000 employes...
...Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...