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...under these conditions that Soviet lumber is produced which is now flooding the world markets...
Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
...industry. Diamond Match's assets at the end of last year were $27,000,000. Of this, $1 represented patents and goodwill although 20 years ago this item came to $4,000,000. Diamond has great timber stands in California, Maine, Idaho and other states. It owns many lumber yards, 40 of which are in California's Sacramento Valley. Its products have been extended as conditions in the match business became worse. Diamond Match now makes toothpicks, fence posts, golf-tees, home-building materials, waxed paper, toilet tissue. It is active in Great Britain, and some...
Died. Charles F. Ruggles, 84, oldtime Michigan lumber tycoon, financial abettor of the American Judiciary Society for the Prevention of Delays in the Law, an endower of Michigan charities by his will to the extent of more than $40,000,000; at his home in Manistee, Mich., where he had long lived the solitary life and worn the decrepit clothes of the pioneer lumberjack...
Whatever purchases Italy makes in return will be for cash, but just what these purchases will be was not divulged last week. Rumor said lumber, coal, mineral ores, petroleum. Chief weakness of Italy's war machine is her great lack of coal and petroleum in commercial quantities. It is known that the Soviet Naphtha Syndicate of Moscow, official distributor of Soviet oil, has set up a subsidiary company in Italy known as Petrolea. Observers guessed that Petrolea will be given the job of stocking the enormous oil reservoirs which Italy's army and navy are now building...