Word: lumbermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What lbs. are to mining men, kw. hrs. to utility men, ft. to lumbermen, $ are to life insurance men. Few bodies of men can swallow such huge figures without blinking as the assembled Association of Life Insurance Presidents, a body representing 68 companies doing over 90% of the U. S. business. Figures they barkened to at their Manhattan convention last week included: $3,000,000,000-the increase in assets of companies holding 86% of the assets of all U. S. firms since 1929. $19,000,000,000-the present total of assets. $103,700,000,000-insurance...
Observers found in the Swope Plan many an idea already in practical application. For the dissemination of association advertising, mutual information and in some cases propaganda, there have long been trade associations (among florists, bottlers, copper and brass pipe manufacturers, tailors, lumbermen, etc. etc.). Most States (44) have workmen's compensation acts. Seventeen States have adopted a form of old age insurance. The Carnegie Foundation provides (through its member colleges) 9,430 teachers with pensions much in the manner President Swope suggested. And last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), President Swope announced an unemployment insurance program for General Electric...
Because the first redwoods cut were found to be 600 to over 1,000 years old, lumbermen predicted the supply would soon be exhausted. Now they estimate that the present redwood forests are large enough to last 100 years and also have found that new growth starts quickly, reforesting is easy. Since redwoods of only 50 years ago are large enough for commercial use, redwoodmen now believe their supply is perpetual...
According to J. F. Stewart, a British forest engineer who has traveled extensively through North Russian forests, the conditions which exist there have been grossly exaggerated in the outside world. He found the lumbermen comparatively well equipped in food, camps, clothes, and medical service. Furthermore Mr. Stewart considered that any deficiencies could well be laid to the faculty organization of the Soviet officials, who are more prone to theory than to actualities...
...Author. Walter D. Edmonds, 27, a native of Boonville, N. Y., has spent nearly every summer there on his family's farm and lately went back there to live Dark, long-faced, quiet, he is a good listener, his favorite occupation being to hear stories from farmers, canalmen, lumbermen. He has also written Rome Haul...