Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little...
...Destiny, famed goddess, began to play her tricks. Little Malcolm became a civil engineer. In 1924 he horrified good Democrats, supported the Presidential campaign of Robert M. LaFollette the Elder. Last week, at the ripe age of 61, he married Miss Mildred M. Traut, daughter of a Portsmouth, Va. lumber merchant, The wedding ceremony was performed by a Manhattan city clerk in the chapel of the Municipal Building...
...another week of portents. Its atmosphere troubled by sunspots, its crust similarly affected and adjusting itself to isostasy (equilibrium), Earth underwent varied disturbances. At Ridgefield, N. J., the black cone of a cyclone descended upon a lumber factory, swept a big church flat as a card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later...
...Railroads of the northwest have "turned the corner," Chairman Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific, said last week. They carry crops, ores and lumber. For the nation there have been ten weeks this year when more than a million cars were loaded. In only one week, that of Jan. 2 were there less than 900,000. This reflects lively interchange of commodities. Gross railroad earnings, January through June, were...
...nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...