Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typewriters and office equipment of the Transcript for $15.84. Another bought in the Transcript's $18,500 press for $41.93, deeded it right back to Editor Baker. In zero weather, Sheriff F. H. Brandt went about the town selling out other Susquehanna concerns. A house fetched 81? a lumber yard, $7.98, automobiles, 25?. Because Susquehanna townsfolk were united allies of Editor Baker, all the properties went back to their original owners. The Canawacta Water Company lost $800 by the sales...
...brother and I," said Andrew Mellon to his black-hatted banker father one day in 1872, "could start a good business with not very much money." So at 17 Andrew and his younger brother Richard got a loan to start a lumber yard and real estate development outside Pittsburgh. Thereafter Andrew and Richard always prefaced their business decrees with "My brother and I"-a phrase which grew to have the finality of the royal "We." As soon as the two boys had proved their sense for profits, their father took them into the private bank of T. (for Thomas) Mellon...
...trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
...reason for refusing General Johnson's call to public duty he could have found it in the fact that no newspaper code yet exists for him to administer. The business of drawing one up began last July. Last week, long after such tougher problems as coal, steel. autos, lumber, had been codified, the news paper code was still on President Roosevelt's desk waiting, ostensibly, for him to find time to sign...
...Ellis Campbell. 61, famed Manhattan undertaker, director of the funerals of Rudolph Valentino, Jeanne Eagels, Oscar Hammerstein. William Dean Howells, Anna Held, Yernon Castle, Frank W. Woolworth, Texas Guinan, Fatty Arbuckle, Francesco de Pinedo and many another celebrity; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Illinois, he sawed casket lumber for a local undertaker, went to Manhattan with no money, plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs...