Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...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...
Last week a Red-fearing woman in Pine Bluff, Ark. sent Congressman Martin Dies a check for $100. This did not surprise Mr. Dies. But, as a Congressional investigator, he can spend only appropriated funds, so he had to return the gift. In his great hunt for un-Americans, Martin Dies is used to receiving and refunding thousands of donated dollars. Once an 82-year-old beneficiary of Social Security telegraphed SSB to give Martin Dies $362 due her. His take-&-return runs as high as $800 in one day, runs highest when he makes radio speeches announcing that...
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Lightwood, a first novel, is the account of 16 years (1874-1890) of war between a northern lumber corporation and squatters who, since the early 19th Century, have inhabited the pine barrens of southern Georgia. It carries the Corn family (squatters) through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage, murder, abortive revolution-and, on the side, develops some creditable focuses in the enemy camp and in the mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably...