Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against Pennsylvania R. R.-by diverting traffic. Aside from the fact that the Mellons are big Pennsy stockholders (young Richard Mellon is a Pennsy director), the Mellons have another good reason to keep on the best terms with as many railroads as possible: they are heavily interested in National Lumber & Creosoting Co., which treats railroad ties and telegraph poles. For a strategic reason for the deal, it was necessary only to look at the Virginian's traffic, which is 90% bituminous coal. Its coal route over the Alleghenies from West Deepwater, W. Va. to deeper water at Hampton Roads...
...more realistic subject of the Northwest woods and the logging industry for this Technicolor. Cast, technical crew, Director William Keighley and Red Spierling, logging superintendent of the Crown Willamette Paper Co., whose crew set a world's record in 1931 by getting out 1,662,000 ft. of lumber in a single day, spent two months at Longview, Wash., making the outdoor sequences. The result, as background of a story loosely adapted from James Oliver Curwood's 1922 novel, is the most spectacular investigation of the lumber industry so far contributed by the screen. It is also...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...
Until last fortnight there had been no kidnapping for ransom in the U. S. since nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser of the rich lumber family was snatched at Tacoma in May 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.). George Weyerhaeuser, whose captors were caught and given stiff sentences after obtaining $200,000 for his release, used to play with Charles Mattson when he went to Haddaway Hall, the former home of his grandfather, two blocks away from the Mattson home...
...generally until Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes applied the word when he was in private practice. The textile industry, with its thousands of small, independent mills, is still the biggest factoring field. In the past five years, however, the factors have taken to such lines as shoes, furs, gloves, lumber, fuel oil. In the case of James Talcott, Inc. these new industries are largely handled by associated factors, the company itself merely refactoring, which is analogous to rediscounting in banking...