Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last November, when Justice Bill Douglas' famed Los Angeles Lumber decision read the riot act to underwater stockholders, common shares in bankrupt railroads have not been worth much. Mobile & Ohio, Missouri Pacific, Milwaukee preferred and common stockholders have been purged by ICC reorganization plans, bondholders given the properties. Last week Pennroad Corp., which wrote its security holdings down by $87,959,517 in 1938, began to shovel some of its charred chestnuts into the fire, revealed that it had sold 152,119 of its original 402,119 shares of Seaboard Air Line (in receivership). The shares, which...
These figures New York Timesman Eugen Kovacs gleaned at a station on the Rumanian-Soviet frontier. Cars loaded with maize, oil cakes, apples, eggs, butter, meat and lumber for Germany are systematically broken open and plundered while crossing Soviet territory. The Germans have to send German freight cars, though they need them badly at home, because if they send cars they captured from the Poles the Russians seize these and claim they captured them. Investigator Kovacs added that the Nazis dare not send tank cars over this line, are "afraid that the oil will be kept in Russia." So they...
...Reader Parker could be wronger, but not much. The Conestoga wagon was made in Conestoga, Pa., which had been named for the Conestoga Indians. To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand while they rolled a cigar with the other. Later Conestogas, or stogies, became favorites of the wagon trains freighting from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, where the drivers would sell the supply they had rolled along the way. Hence, Pittsburgh stogies. Wheeling came in on the freight...
...native Winn Parish, Sam Jones was going to high school in the sleepy cattle town of DeRidder, 15 miles from the Texas line. When Huey was making a name for himself as a young lawyer, handling compensation cases for hillbillies hurt in Winn Parish's new lumber mills (1915), Sam Jones was working his way through Louisiana State University. When Huey Long was baiting the Interests-especially Standard Oil-claiming draft exemption because he was a notary public, and proclaiming that only suckers would fight, plodding Sam Jones, true to his commonplace name, was drilling away in the army...
Charging that "native born Americans have been deported by the immigration authorities in the Northwest because they are controlled by the lumber barons," Bridges described the attempts of West Coast industry to destroy the union movement...