Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...putting on its hat to go home the President extracted his biggest piece of 1934 recovery legislation-the National Housing Act. Of the 9,500,000 persons in the U. S. still out of jobs, more than half used to work in the capital goods industries (machinery, structural steel, lumber, ships, cement, locomotives, stone). PWA was to have provided relief for the heavy industries but it turned out to be too costly, too slow. NRA tended to decrease the demand for capital goods by raising prices and limiting production. The Securities Act discouraged industry from borrowing money to buy capital...
...rivalry of two gangs of Viennese schoolboys for the possession of a lumber yard forms the background of the story, which moves smoothly through the usual series of incidents to a powerful though somewhat everdone conclusion...
...pedagogy, he wangled generous grants from the Legislature, built up a maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
...agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy's ports of Fiume and Trieste; Hungary to give Austria and Italy big tariff preferences...
...competition with ministers but among the unchurched. in what it calls "No Man's Land." At Ellis Island and other points of debarkation, "colporteurs" (distributors) for the Society hand tracts to immigrants in their native languages. Tracts go to the unemployed, to sailors, to inhabitants of lumber camps, CCC camps, prisons, hospitals and "religiously neglected areas . . . especially among the Mormons...