Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South's biggest industrial baby, Southern capital was hard to find for newsprint. Texans...
...hand at auctions is Chicago Lumberman Louis L. Meitus. Few weeks ago, when Mr. Meitus heard that the Seils & Sterling Circus was being disbanded at Sheboygan, Wis., he went shopping there for trucks and trailers. His business done, he started to go home. Just then five Shetland ponies were put on the block. Knowing that his two children pined for a pony, Mr. Meitus decided to buy all five. Once fairly in his stride, he kept on bidding, finally bought the whole circus shebang...
Married. Mrs. Emily Flamm Gilchrist, 70, who seven years ago inherited $2,000,000 from her lumberman husband, William A. Gilchrist; to Roe Wells, 50, $25,000-per-year vice president of Doughnut Corp. of America; in Valparaiso, Ind. Said he: "Mrs. Wells and I have agreed to pool our interests and carry on. We shall be very happy working together...
Having been elected Governor of Mississippi two years ago on a novel platform -to keep the late Huey Long from annexing that State to his domain-millionaire Lumberman Hugh White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...