Word: lumberman
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...Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone...
When Thomas Austin Yawkey spent approximately $1,000,000 of the $4,000,000 he inherited from the Detroit lumberman who was his foster-father to buy the Boston Red Sox in 1933, his earnest purpose was to put that city and that team back on the baseball map. Subsequent developments proved that he was not bluffing. He promptly spent $500,000 improving Fenway Park, $400,000 for new players. When the Red Sox, perennial tail-enders of the American League since 1924, finished in fourth place last season, Owner Yawkey was disappointed. Last week, almost before other big-league...
...near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful at being squeezed by Butler, is said to have muscled his way into the financier's office with a .45, promised Banker Butler: "If I go, you'll go too." The story goes that Banker Butler made Joe Irving his partner...
...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...