Word: texasism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time he took over his father's lumber company and foundry in 1930, Kurth sought ways to make them bigger. Since his Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. depended on outside companies for its castings, Kurth set up Texas Foundries, Inc. as his own supplier. It soon became the...
Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber...
His next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they...
Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing...
Financial Statement. In Abilene, Texas, after four burglaries at his St. Paul Methodist Church, Pastor Earl Hamlett announced through the columns of the Reporter News: "We do not keep our collection money in the church safe . . . Pickings [there] are either very slim or nonexistent and never worth the trouble, regardless...