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...running a sawmill in Mobile. The depression of 1907 cleaned him out. Since then, he has been cleaned out by every depression that came along. In 1908 he started over again with 15? and a mandolin (which he pawned), by World War I had a flourishing lumber and export business. In 1922 his New Orleans lumber business crashed and he had to sell his wife's jewelry to keep going...
...falls, and his comebacks, were due less to lumber than to his passion for boats. By the time he crashed hardest (in 1931) he was known in New Orleans for designing speedboats that answered a rum runner's prayer-and for designing other speedboats that the Feds used to chase them...
Some help may come from lumber dealers, who have devised handy, prefabricated farm storage bins. And CCC may transfer from Iowa corn country some 17,000 steel bins used to store excess corn surpluses. (Big demand for hogs and alcohol have emptied these corn bins, which hold...
...seemed as rare as an Aepyornis egg. Madagascar's four railroads total only 534 miles of track, but there are 16,000 miles of roads passable to automobiles-or armored divisions-in the dry season, which begins next month and lasts until November. The island produces lumber, sugar, coffee, manioc, maize, cacao, vanilla, tobacco. It has some of the world's richest graphite mines. Doubtless the Axis would welcome these trifles in addition to a base dominating the western Indian Ocean...
...threw U.S. railroads into a frenzy by suggesting that they forego the 6% freight-rate increase which ICC recently granted them on ten key commodities (lumber, cement, petroleum products, pig iron, etc.). OPA further hinted that, if rail revenue (in January, gross revenues were 27%, net income 30% above 1941) continues up, it would request ICC to revoke the rate increase entirely...