Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor E. C. Robbins, dean of the School of Business Administration in the University of Oregon, and other authorities on business problems of the lumber industry, are giving lectures today and in the near future in the Business School which are open to all members of the University. The lectures will be given in room 100 of the Baker Library Building...
Albert Bacon Fall, once an ambitious Kentucky boy, founder of "Fall's Business College for Young Men" at Nashville, Tenn., who reached wealth, fame and a place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
...understanding lumber terms and processes, an exhibit showing the successive steps of manufacture has been arranged for the students in Baker Library...
Professor J. A. de Haas, who is giving the course, states that the study of a specific problem of business administration in a firm at present conducting business under difficult conditions will form an excellent center around which to group a study of other phases of the lumber industry. Reforestation, the use of by-products, and the effect of building booms upon the industry will be some of the correlated subjects presented. The Yale School of Forestry will send experts in lumbering and reforestation, including Professor R. C. Bryant...
Overproduction, lack of organization, and the increasing competition of substitutes for lumber were outlined by Professor de Haas as some of the contributing causes to the deficit in the lumber industry. "Every lumber mill will need a chemical plant for converting waste products into profitable commodities in the future," said Professor de Haas...