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NORTHWEST LUMBER STRIKE of 100,000 A.F.L. and C.I.O. woodworkers, the first time both unions have gone out together, will boost national lumber prices if it keeps on much longer. In two weeks West Coast lumber prices have gone up 20% (up to $20 per 1,000 board...
...immigrants themselves are happy. Last year fewer than 600 had to be shipped back home. Among those who stayed there is a common experience of success, and each national group provides its own striking examples of how its members have prospered. A Czech family has built a lumber business employing 4,000. Two Britons opened a garage in Ottawa and are grossing more than $100,000 a year. The Dutch are especially proud of one family that emigrated to a Manitoba farm in 1948. Two years later, they had saved enough to buy and move into the former home...
...entered the Army in 1917 and got a commission, but even the Army could not stop his trading. When the brass on his post ordered some salvage lumber burned, Clint sold it instead for kindling, netted more than $15,000 for the mess fund. (Sid Richardson, meanwhile, had joined a National Guard company where he was allowed to do some oil-lease trading to bolster the outfit's funds...
Each company has had a phenomenal growth since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...
...revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that her husband is a mother...