Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones has lived in Texas since his youthful migration from Tennessee. He made millions in lumber, rose to bank and railroad directorships, took a big man's interest in politics, became international as a Red Cross man with H. P. Davison, became national as a Democratic angel. He was opposed to placing all the advertising through one agency. On money matters, he was a little "hard-boiled." But, at fitful intervals during October, he (or Chairman Clem Shaver, through James W. Gerard, Democratic National Treasurer) paid to Van Patten Inc. $50,000 because, according to the latter, various publishers were...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...rotorship Buckau, first of its kind, set sail from Danzig for Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of lumber. The voyage is to be the first commercial test of this new type of wind-propelled ship. Its trip from Kiel to Danzig to take on cargo was productive of conflicting reports: some said the Buckau went by her wind; some, by means of her auxiliary engine...
Married. Miss Loretta Hines, daughter of Edward Hines, Chicago lumber millionaire, to one Howell Howard of Dayton; in Chicago, at the Cathedral of the Holy Name. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra played the wedding march. Cardinal Munclelein officiated. Tito Schipa, famed tenor, sang. The Hines family had caused the interior of the Cathedral to be done over in red velvet, had filled in with flowers, had spent, it was reported, more than $100,000, The arrival and departure of 2,000 guests was facilitated by lines of policemen stationed to keep back a great multitude of idlers...
...bright gray eyes that he is chiefly Celt. His stories of personal experience are many of them quite as dramatic as his novels-that's a gift these Irishmen have! Mr. Kyne wrote his first story at 13, was a soldier in the Spanish War, engaged in the lumber business and failed at it, tried to start a newspaper and failed at it, then turned to writing and has been more successful at it than most of his fellow "best-sellers." That fact that The Go-Getter* and its doctrine have made him a good-salesman trade-mark irks...