Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paper is a hot subject in the South, partly because of the conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against...
...Slash pine for paper, Tung oil for varnishes, soy beans for oils and plastics were all mentioned; but the big new proposed market-which might pull us out of the Depression, as did the automobile in 1920-21-is power alcohol...
...Slash Pine. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Savannah has fostered paper making in the cut-over pine lands and swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...
When the Coshland motion to slash salaries came to a vote, however, it was defeated, 2,370,000 to 335 shares. Apparently oblivious to the commotion he had caused, Chairman Schwab uprose to remind the stockholders: "This is our thirtieth meeting and I think we have every reason to be proud. ... In the steel business I have been known as an optimist and a dreamer for 55 years, and I have seen those dreams come true...
...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...