Word: slashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
...immediate effects of the measure remained in greatest doubt. Any reduction of tariffs of course treads on certain toes with resultant squeals. While one school of economists hailed Blum this week, another considered the Premier to be taking the risk of snatching away from French producers by his tariff slash benefits which he had just conferred by devaluing the franc. Apparently the Premier's idea was to keep prices in France from rising by letting in cheap foreign goods. He thus played the card of Devaluation in a manner exactly opposite to that of President Roosevelt whose objective...
...teachers have had a full-fledged union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor since 1916. Ten years, during which they lobbied earnestly for higher salaries, pensions and tenure laws, left American Federation of Teachers with only 3.000 members. Then Depression forced school boards to slash salaries, and by 1934 A. F. of T. had 302 locals. 35,000 aroused and militant members. Although it still represents less than 2% of the 2.000,000 U. S. schoolteachers. A. F. of T. assembled for its 20th annual convention in Philadelphia's Hotel Sylvania last week to face all the problems...
...From kraft is made liner board for shipping containers, which account for about one-half of Container Corp.'s unit volume. The company now imports some 32,000 tons of kraft pulp annually, mostly from Scandinavia. In the South pulp can be made for $18 a ton from slash pine. To smart President Paepcke this means that his new Florida mill will cut Container's kraft costs by $10 per ton, save the company some $320,000 per year as its own best customer. If President Paepcke can sell the rest of the new mill's output...