Word: lumberyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fires broke out, spreading a pall of smoke over the city. Worst was the blaze that destroyed the El Monte lumberyard in the business district. Firemen, soldiers and police fought it for six hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing...
...Emperor Jones's life is an open book of closed deals. Some of those deals were sharp. But they are all closed. He made those closed deals in one city, and incidentally made the city. Houston, Tex. was a desolate prairie hamlet when young Jesse Jones, up-&-coming lumberyard owner, took it apart and put it together again...
...Tennessee farmer, he went to Dallas to work for his well-to-do uncle, M. T. Jones; then went to Houston in stead of college. In nine years he ran one lumberyard into 65, branched out into real estate, banking, other investments...