Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., who keeps track of the mountain-sized U.S. debt, was introduced in St. Louis to E. E. Pershall, a Missouri lumberman, who claimed that he was one of the U.S.'s minor creditors. "I worked three months as a $1-a-year man in the Treasury," he said, "and I was never paid." The Secretary of the Treasury promptly handed over a quarter...
Author Gayn's father was a Russian lumberman. Most of Gayn's childhood was spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...events of the two days had projected into the news and given at least a footnote in history to a man hardly known to the U.S. public. Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman (six generations of Averys have been lumber men), Sewell Avery was born in Saginaw in 1874. After graduation from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave...
Democrats held a coming-out party at the Capitol for their secret weapon: the Party's first feminine national secretary. She is dimpled, blue-eyed Dorothy Vredenburgh, 27, a wealthy lumberman's wife from Vredenburgh, Ala. At a lunch Mrs. Vredenburgh beamed on New Dealers and anti-New Dealers alike. She reassured 49 of her Party's Senators...