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...freaks still parade, the clowns cavort, the chariots race, the elephants lumber, the band blares...
...contracts all over the country (examples: 800 buildings in Louisville, 550 in Cincinnati, 300 in Columbus, Ohio, 75 in Oakland, Calif.), Cleveland Wrecking is having one of the big years of its career, can well look forward to salvage coups like its saving of 6,000,000 feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much as $100,000 worth of equipment on a single job, including bulldozers, clam shell buckets, a two-ton steel weight swung from a boom to batter walls and floors...
...cities, spotted executive offices in five other cities from coast to coast. String-savers on a grand scale, they also bought army goods-everything from McClellan saddles to cots and hospital equipment-opened Army-&-Navy stores to resell them. They wrecked buildings by the thousands, branched into new lumber. In 1928 they incorporated. The company was named Cleveland in honor of Father Rose's home; its technical headquarters were based in Cincinnati because it was an Ohio corporation; its home office stayed in Minneapolis because that was where Louis got his start...
...TIME also might be wronger but not much in stating that "To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand, while they rolled a cigar with the other." I would suggest to son Jimmie that he have a movie made showing such a stunt (if it can be done) and show it in the . . . slot movie machine to be put on the market by Mills-Globe...
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...