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...Ships & Timber. North of Inglewood, in San Francisco, striking machinists still sulked. Half a billion dollars worth of naval construction had been tied up for a month. While Franklin Roosevelt smacked down on aircraft strikes with one hand, with the other he summarily beckoned Harvey W. Brown, machinists' chief, to the White House. Results of that conference were awaited this week...
...high-explosive bombs just 72 hours after Winston Churchill had there spun one of his finest fabrics of oratory. Big Ben, whose broadcast chimes had become a symbol of empire, had his face blackened and cut, but in a few hours the huge clock was running again. The exquisite timber roof of 900-year-old Westminster Hall, under which Charles I, Guy Fawkes and Warren Hastings were tried, caved...
Captain Donahue high - scored the Varsity meeting with 13 tallies through his hurdles' grand slam, doing the 120-yard lows in 15.3 and the 220-highs in a mediocre 24.7 seconds, and a second place in the furlong dash. In the two timber races his teammates Roger Schafer and Don MacKinnon exchanged seconds and thirds for a Crimson sweep of the events...
...Coque Bruyere, a twelve-year-old timber topper owned by John Strawbridge of Philadelphia: the Maryland Hunt Cup, classic climax of the U.S. steeplechase season; outjumping Stuart S. Janney's Vaunt in a neck-&-neck finish to the grueling four-mile race; before a crowd of 25,000; on the estate of Socialite J. W. Y. Martin, near Baltimore. Time...
...jawed, bushy-browed, erudite Tycoon MacMillan was born near Toronto, studied forestry at Yale. In 1912 he went to British Columbia, got interested in timber's export possibilities, went into business for himself. Soon his ships were carrying so much of Canada's lumber exports that the sawmill owners began buying ships too. So MacMillan bought (from John D. Rockefeller Jr.) one billion feet of standing timber and a sawmill...