Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Against Governor Brann the Republican candidate, Alfred K. Ames, an elderly retired lumber merchant, was no match in political give & take. But Republicans swarmed to his aid. To Maine they sent Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Representative Hamilton Fish, Col. Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, Representative Allen T. Treadway, and many another. Senator Hale declared flatly that to re-elect Governor Brann would be to endorse the New Deal...
...lumber the hardwood forests of the Appalachian hillsides and the Mississippi Valley have a code which, as codes go, is a good one. The mill owners lived happily under it for nearly a year. Among other things it provides for production control, cost protection, hard & fast minimum prices. And for an industry which has no less than 5,800 members in its trade association and code authority, the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, there was surprisingly little chiseling...
...know, GM made $1,000,000 less in the second quarter of 1934 than in the same period of 1933 although its sales were $100,000,000 more. President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. flatly announced that costs must be cut. In August when Fisher Body was ready to buy lumber, its purchasing agents told the hardwood manufacturers something like this: "We cannot afford to pay $66 per thousand ft. of oak. We know that is the minimum price established by your code authority but we can pay only $60. We know and you know that $60 will leave a profit...
...remark that "The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country," and "Labor, too, has still something of the devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists used in a lumber camp brawl out here. And it begins to look as if it would be a long time indeed before they will have become civilized enough to use the more refined methods of your Al Capones in settling arguments...