Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from his New York home at the age of 18, that there were no cannibals in South Africa, so he had to become a businessman. In 40 years he acquired all the theatres, cinemas, broadcasting facilities in South Africa and a large share of its minerals, shipping, banks, timber, fruit, insurance, transportation and real estate. Last week he edged his way into the world's most famed monopoly: Diamonds...
Boston followers of the cinder path will have a chance to see a goodly assortment of Olympics timber this evening on the boards at the Boston Arena, when a large field of competitors will show their mettle at the annual B.A.A. games. Harvard's track forces, 36 strong, will be among the number of athletes participating in the meet...
...happiest hours Mr. Roosevelt passes at Hyde Park in the house his father bought in 1866 and in which he was born. It is old and colonial. Its clapboard sides have been stuccoed and a stone wing added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here...
...large snapping turtle named Orpheus made itself at home last week in Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel. It was the honored guest of Mrs. Ben Rubenstein, wife of a British timber merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather...
...Corp. His fight was the fight of the old-school businessman. To visualize Long-Bell one must think of the 14-story R. A. Long Building in Kansas City, must comprehend that on its 379,000 acres of land there were about 9,075,000,000 ft. of saleable timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction...