Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentation of the lumber industry as one of eight major business enterprises to be studied in Business Policy 12 this year, the Business School has obtained the cost records and full operation data of a lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...
Author James Stevens, onetime hobo teamster, of Tacoma, Wash., is famed as the chronicler of superhuman Paul Bunyan, the mythical hero of North American lumber camps. Author Stevens is an authority on other mythical creatures of North America including lava bears, sand gougers, lightning birds, waumpus cats, treehoppers and minktums (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926, BOOKS). Last week, announcement was made of another Stevens extravaganza, an allegorical U. S. fable entitled "Staggerbear and Guzzlenot" which Plain Talk, the monthly magazine publishing it, condensed for publicity purposes as follows...
Toward Upper Canada crept another people, settlers from the older, lower provinces of Canada neither English-speaking nor English-thinking. Opposite the Detroit River, one of them (the Count de Cadillac) founded a trading station. French countrymen followed, settling small farms, laboring in lumber camps, infiltrating the zealously English Province of Ontario with French blood & customs...
...Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought his daughter. She made Joseph pick up his ax and begin to chop through the thick dark trunk of an ash tree she wanted for lumber...