Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made a birdie 4 on the last hole, won first prize...
...dagger of such an undertaking is not that it will fall to please those who do not like their Dickens, but rather, that it will irritate these who do. Speaking for the latter group of movie-gooier, I can reassure them that their author has proved himself excellent movie-timber...
...acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products Co.; 5) vice president & treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar, a big Mormon beet-sugar enterprise; 6) president of Stoddard Lumber Co. which cuts 30,000,000 ft. of timber annually, in eastern Oregon; 7) director of a chain of lumber yards; 8) director of a farm implement house. Said the White House release: "All of these concerns have successfully weathered the years of Depression...
William Curtise Butler owns a large interest in the First National Bank of Seattle, is president of Everett Trust & Savings Bank and Everett's First National, controls immense timber interests in western Washington. Though his is one of the Northwest's big fortunes, his name appears on no door, window or nameplate, identifies no concern, is not listed in Who's Who or the Everett telephone book. The oldest employe in the First National of Seattle does not know who he is. Yet, through Brother Nicholas, he has selected two of the University of Washington...
Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...