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...Tacoma, Wash. Tacoma's Dr. Albert Wellington Bridge. 54, had just signed a new 20-year-lease on Ohanapecosh Hot Springs in Mount Rainier National Park. His Ohanapecosh resort is but a sideline with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under his care by contract. In that business he has become an extraordinary figure, a medical tycoon. Industrial "contract practice" is a form of health insurance which arose in isolated lumber camps and mining towns and is confined largely to lumber, mining and railroad industries. The contracting...
...general's helper, Dudley Gates, labored to aid lumbermen with their code, got them to include in it Roosevelt's pet, forest conservation. Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) until he was felled by an acute heart attack. Helper Donald R. Richberg, counsel of the Recovery Administration, was busy stimulating merchants in Manhattan with dire prophecies: "If this adventure should fail . . . it will be the failure of an industrial system. . . . There is only the choice presented between private and public...
...efforts of the World Economic Conference by putting his domestic recovery program ahead of stabilization of currencies, President Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...Professor Lipman ("Lippy" to students). He is one of the most learned men at Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of a 2-year-old child...