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...Lumber, soft...
...travel from 30 to 50 mi. Greatest in the U. S. was that of 1925 which stretched a ribbon of destruction across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana. In its wake were 695 dead and $16.500,000 worth of tangled, destroyed property.* Instead of transporting water, tornadoes carry chickens, small live stock, lumber, outhouses. Houses and barns in the path of a tornado are not blown down but explode. The vacuum column draws the air from around the house, the inside pressure forces the walls...
Five years ago William O. Goodman, Chicago lumber magnate, gave the Art Institute a theatre in memory of his son Kenneth, amateur playwright, who died in November 1918. The Goodman Theatre, built below ground level behind the Art Institute to leave the South Parkway lake frontage unobstructed, cost $300,000 and was endowed with $150,000. When Thomas Wood Stevens, then head of Carnegie Institute's drama department, was placed in full command of the enterprise, artistic Chicagoans were delighted, predicted great things for the Goodman Theatre and creative stagecraft in Chicago. Week before last Director Stevens resigned...
Wilbur announced that the U. S. had just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under...
Senate Leader Watson hopefully predicted the bill would be through Congress in ten days. First the Senate must approve the conference changes in toto; then the House must sanction the flexibility change and the new lumber rate. That the President would sign the bill and try to flex out its imperfections was a firm congressional conviction...