Word: lumberyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant artistic force in his family. She encouraged Ed in his talent for drawing, gave him an upstairs bedroom for his carpenter shop. There, as a boy of 14, Stone designed the structure that won his first architectural contest-a birdhouse for a contest sponsored by the local lumberyard. Budding Architect Stone's entry and first-prize ($2.50) winner: "A modest shelter for bluebirds, covered with sassafras branches...
...Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than 100 real-life problems involving alcoholism, civic intrigue and second marriages. This week the problem was divorce. Ma's indomitable spirit and homely wisdom have glowed through...
...years later, when Ray was spending his summers working in a lumberyard in Tellico Plains, one of his co-workers was another lanky Monroe County boy named Estes Kefauver. Estes was a lumber handler, hoisting it into freight cars. Ray was a grader, checking lumber as it was piled in the cars. Says Tennessee's Senator Kefauver: "I was always kind of envious of him. He could stay in the boxcar where it was cool; I had to stay...
Revolutions Ahead. With the Chambers brothers' savings of $8,000, the three rented space in a corner of a lumberyard and built a prototype. Frank took it to Chicago and showed it to Montgomery Ward officials, who astonished the three partners by ordering 250 for the 1947 Christmas season. Ward soon upped the order to 1,000, then 2,000. The partners incorporated as Magna Engineering Corp. (after Magna, Utah, home town of the brothers' parents). In 1948, its first full year, Magna sold $3,000,000 worth of Shopsmiths. Last year it grossed nearly...
Beer & Skittles. Next day, refreshed by this news, and by water from a nearby spring, Bedrich and Marian Cech took a desperate chance. Armed with their tools and Marian's lumberyard identification, they marched straight up to the stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching...