Word: webb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Woodman Webb said he would spare the trees for 30 days, to give Rugby's friends time to buy the land back. His price, including the trees...
Then John Garner and Ross Brumfield piled into the old jalopy, headed it for the 26,000-acre Garner ranch in Webb County...
...accounts of fighting became available. Trying to flank the Mannerheim Line, the Russians organized a big attack along the west bank of Lake Laatokka, where the Taipale River flows into the lake. First they had to cross the river, and a Finnish soldier told the United Press's Webb Miller what happened to 500 Russians there...
...society editor, she would appreciate that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont...