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...condemnation proceeding at Madison, Va. the lumber company officials swore that the Cabinet camp, with its four luxurious cabins costing $20,000, had been built without their permission, that no lease had been sought or signed. The Rapidan Marine force of 120 men under Major Earl Long had also squatted on their property for a year before bothering about a lease.* When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants. The lumber company had to pay taxes increased by improvements...
Said he: "We [Finns] cannot withdraw from the [lumber] market. We must fight for it. But people say that we cannot compete with Russia owing to the economic methods employed by that country. We must, however, do so, and we can do so with hopes of success. We have many technical advantages. Our forests are better situated, our waterways are better and shorter, our men and horses are better provisioned, and the skill and efficiency of our workers are higher than those of the conscripted workers of Russia...
...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
...Columbian on Carbon 810 560 Commercial Credit 1,087 865 Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines) 391 215 Murray Corp. (motor bodies) 295 204 D National Candy 313 112 Newport Co. (chemicals) 426 240 Patino Mines (tin) 150 D 163 D Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt 778 3 Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron...
Early one morning a clerk in the commissary at Logtown?tiny lumber settle-ment 70 miles inland from Puerto Cabezas ?spied the attacking force coming out of the steamy jungle. He jerked off the telephone receiver, screamed "Help! Help!" to the operator at Wawa Junction on the narrow gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into...