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Word: northeasterners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue last week came Northeastern Timber Marketing Association in a deal without precedent. For the sum of $14,400,000, the association agreed to take the entire 600,000,000 feet (95% white pine) off the Government's hands. It agreed to pay an average price of $24 a thousand board feet, to put up a $750,000 bond and $100,000 cash by Dec. i, to pay off in $800,000 quarterly payments over the next four and a half years. Limited to a profit of 20%, the association must split anything above that with the Government, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBERING: Woodpile | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...softspoken, balding Detroit lumber wholesaler named Herman I Hymans, who has never before nosed into politics. Originally he wanted to buy only 100,000,000 feet of the hurricane timber, was afraid that if he did the market price would go to pot when the Government began selling. Northeastern Association was the solution. To keep it out of the monopoly class, the Government insisted that it be a cooperative with at least 30 members. Last week, with a Delaware incorporation and Manhattan offices, it began soliciting more members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBERING: Woodpile | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Dutch defense plan, like the Polish, is one of strategic delay and retreat. No attempt could be made to save the northeastern provinces. First stand would be made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: General Dike | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...third victory in four starts for the Jayvee squad who tangle with Yale's Junior Varsity next Friday afternoon on Soldiers Field. They have racked up wins over the Dartmouth Jayvees and the Northeastern '43, suffering a single defeat, 15 to 13, at the hands of a scrappy Princeton aggregation...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: TERRIER FRESHMEN BURIED BY JAYVEES | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...first half touchdown marches coupled with stubborn defensive work brought victory, 13 to 6, for Coach Henry Lamar's spirited Jayvee eleven in a game with the Northeastern Freshmen yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Down Stubborn Northeastern '43 Squad 13-6, in Close Contest | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

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