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...Giants (Warner Bros.), like Drums (see below), takes color completely in its stride. And its Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupi...
When Ed Collins came out of church his two pals were waiting for him. They took him to a lumber yard, made him steal two stout boards. Then they drove him to the edge of town, to a lonely spot near the County Hospital...
Keel of the Dollar Line was laid some 40 years ago by dour old Captain Robert Dollar who needed ships for his lumber business in the newly opened Pacific Northwest. A goat-bearded gaffer with a self-made man's canniness and mistrust of others, he drove many a skinflint bargain. In 1928, at 84, he wangled a Government ocean mail subsidy calculated to pay him about $3,000,000 annually. For some $9,000,000 he had already purchased on time from the U. S. Shipping Board twelve vessels then valued at almost...
Captain Dollar died in 1932 and his son, R. (for Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...
...capitalist state is largely lifted in the Soviet State by turnover taxes. As a capitalist buys materials and adds a profit on to his costs before selling them, the State adds a turnover tax. Thus in Russia the State sells its own wood to its own sawmills, sells its lumber to its furniture factories, sells its furniture to the public-and collects a tax on each of these turnovers. It has been natural for Communist financial planners to get increased revenues for the State by inserting more and more turnovers with resulting complications-now to be ironed out by rationalization...