Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield (Ohio), St. Paul (Minn.), Auburn (N. Y.) and Milwaukee (Wis.). Raw materials come from company-owned iron ore mines in Minnesota, coal and coke works in Kentucky and at Chicago, furnace and steel mills at Chicago, timber lands and sawmills in Missouri, sisal plantations in Cuba. The S. S. Harvester, 10,000 tons, affords transportation economies...
Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
...gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...
...other products listed in the resolution are or may be controlled in similar ways by various foreign countries. Brazil is protecting her coffee growers. Canada is talking of an export embargo on pulpwood to conserve her timber, etc. But at the present time rubber is the outstanding case...
Interior. One pleasing fact, (a savings of $82,635,930 in operating the Department during the past two years) and several disturbing ones were reported by Secretary Hubert Work. He declared that the timber on public lands was being dissipated, and recommended that no Government timber be sold for ten years. He asserted that Government reclamation projects planned to pay back their cost in ten years, had not done so in 20 years; that on many projects it is impossible to secure sufficient settlers; and that on parts of many the soil is too poor to enable settlers...