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...Africa and Guadeloupe). A 75% reduction was made for canned pilchards (sardines), U. S. exports of which in late years have been too negligible for anyone to list. French quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
Last week Senator Hugo Lafayette Black chose to give this whole delicate question a public airing in his Senate Lobby Investigating Committee.* Up for investigation was John Henry Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told...
...Canada's Price Bros. & Co. began a mighty career in lumber, later branched into paper. Its own printed currency was long accepted locally as legal tender. Were Price Bros. banknotes circulating today they would find few takers. Competetive ferocity in a traditionally ferocious industry ground down newsprint prices from the post-War $110 per ton to a Depression $40. Short on profitable U. S. contracts, long on overhead, Price Bros. defaulted interest payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been...
...Paul Bunyan. famed superman of lumber-camp legend, had been a hockey player, he would have liked a game that was played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...
Naval stores originally got their name because as long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production...