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...made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned to the source of the lumber business, the forest. Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority. When the north woods were stripped, he moved into Idaho, into Oregon and Washington...
Died. John Philip Weyerhaeuser, 76, president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., eldest son of Founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser who built it up to be leader in the $10,000,000,000 U. S. lumber industry; of pneumonia; in Tacoma, Wash...
...steeplechase in the U.S., has special hazards of its own. Instead of hedges which a horse can brush without falling and which, when the big field has crashed through them on the first circuit of the course, are considerably easier the second time around, the Maryland jumps are timber fences with the top rail securely nailed down. In a blue-green pocket of the hills a few miles outside of Baltimore, eight horses went to the post last week...
Presidential Timber...
Since his resignation Mr. Douglas has given only a few speeches, but they have disclosed a fundamental disagreement between his views and those of the President. In some quarters, he is strongly considered as presidential timber for 1936 or 1940. At the present time he is vice-president of the American Cyanamid Corporation...