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...traded in the family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...
...bases. Last spring, when some of his subcontractors began to complain about money owed them. Hayes called an abrupt halt to all the work on projects yet uncompleted (TIME, June 6). On the sites, virtually nothing has happened since. Not only are there unfinished houses, but huge piles of lumber and other building materials are being ruined by the winter weather...
...Southern members of the Rules Committee, including Howard Smith, rebelled against the New Deal because of Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court and his proposal to set a 40?-an-hour minimum wage (strenuously opposed by owners of Southern textile and lumber mills). From 1937 on, all during Sam Rayburn's years as Speaker, the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats successfully dominated the Rules Committee...
...ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only in the 1930s, with the construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really begin to tap the Northwest's great industrial potential. The new treaty opens the way to further development of that potential, promises...
...stopped growing." But he did not step eating. ''I was always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...