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Longview
Dennis Weber
Karen Dennis
Sue Maxey
出版
Arcadia Publishing
, 2012
主題
History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Nature / Natural Disasters
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Travel / Pictorials
Travel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
ISBN
0738596035
9780738596037
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EDDs0T32cyAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From his command post in a downtown Kansas City skyscraper, the nation's foremost lumberman, R.A. Long, received the devastating report from his company's timber scouts in 1918: his sources for raw material were nearly exhausted. The once-lush pine and oak forests of the Mississippi Delta had been stripped clean and converted into farmland. Now, his Long-Bell Lumber Company was at a crossroads. The timber baron put the question to a vote by his board of directors: disband or build the world's largest lumber mill somewhere else? This group of middle-aged men looked upon R.A. Long as a father figure and a proverbial King Midas, able to turn wood into gold. Their decision was easy: they wholeheartedly endorsed the plan to build. And their vision became the Longview story, combining social engineering, modern marketing, and a whole lot of money into a 20th-century urban success story.