Word: lundbergs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the cataclysmic picture painted last week in Manhattan by Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg, a Swedish-born mining engineer and geologist of Toronto. At a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Mr. Lundberg described the latest efforts to find, by newfangled electrical and magnetic prospecting, the remains of Arizona's great meteorite...
Born in Chicago 35 years ago, son of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother, Author Lundberg got his start as a police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme...
Unselective, poorly organized, overloaded with names and figures, America's 60 Families is good muckraking. Lundberg's collection of "conspicuous wastes" would have warmed the heart of the late Thorstein Veblen (Theory of the Leisure Class). He managed, for instance, to "isolate 723 bathrooms in the various Du Pont establishments, at which point, with much ground remaining to be covered, the quest was regretfully terminated...
...long analysis of some of the Lundberg figures, the Annalist said last week: "No 500-page book on economic history can escape containing true statistical statements but Mr. Lundberg's book has come surprisingly near that achievement." More open to question, however, than Ferdinand Lundberg's facts are the inferences he draws from them, unfailingly deducing sinister motives for acts often quite innocent...
Last week what Mr. Lundberg had to say over the air in his own defense was very simple. On the question of libel, a sore subject since the Du Pont Co. has sued him for $150,000, Mr. Lundberg said: "General Johnson, so far as I know, is not an authority on libel." As for the charge of Communist propaganda, Author Lundberg declared: "I am not now, nor was I ever, a member of the Communist Party or of any of its affiliated or oppositionist groups. I am not now, and never have been directly or indirectly connected with...