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...Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally, as was power production. Wheat prices broke to new lows for the year and bank clearings slipped $700,000,000 from the previous week, were 14.6% under a year...
...Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...Southern lumber's $229,000,000 production was half the U. S. total. Southern fertilizer production was $97,000,000 against a total of $140,000,000 for the whole nation. From 1900 to 1935 the total manufactured production of the U. S. rose from $11,400,000,000 to $45,700,000,000; in the South from...
...deliberating group included assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
...raining, as it usually is on the west side of those mountains, but he saw enough to want the Mt. Olympus national monument expanded into Mount Olympus national park. Last week, a bill to do this having finally been passed by Congress after much wrangling between conservationists and lumber companies over the extent of the expansion. Franklin Roosevelt affixed the signature that brought the new park (898,292 acres) into being...