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...with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under his care by contract. In that business he has become an extraordinary figure, a medical tycoon. Industrial "contract practice" is a form of health insurance which arose in isolated lumber camps and mining towns and is confined largely to lumber, mining and railroad industries. The contracting employer deducts a set sum* from each employe's wages, turns it over to a physician or hospital association. In return the physician or association agrees to furnish within stated limits all medical...
...week of last year, showing an unseasonal gain of 17%. For the seventh consecutive week carloading ran ahead not only of 1933 but also of 1932. Output of bituminous coal, prime source of U. S. power, exceeded the levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick-up in automobile production had bettered the status...
...William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...
...typewriters and office equipment of the Transcript for $15.84. Another bought in the Transcript's $18,500 press for $41.93, deeded it right back to Editor Baker. In zero weather, Sheriff F. H. Brandt went about the town selling out other Susquehanna concerns. A house fetched 81? a lumber yard, $7.98, automobiles, 25?. Because Susquehanna townsfolk were united allies of Editor Baker, all the properties went back to their original owners. The Canawacta Water Company lost $800 by the sales...
...brother and I," said Andrew Mellon to his black-hatted banker father one day in 1872, "could start a good business with not very much money." So at 17 Andrew and his younger brother Richard got a loan to start a lumber yard and real estate development outside Pittsburgh. Thereafter Andrew and Richard always prefaced their business decrees with "My brother and I"-a phrase which grew to have the finality of the royal "We." As soon as the two boys had proved their sense for profits, their father took them into the private bank of T. (for Thomas) Mellon...