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...lost 90% of its virgin commercial timber to fires, insects and the woodman's ax, and trees are still falling about as fast as they are growing. Big U.S. lumber companies have been given most of the blame for this drastic, and usually wasteful leveling of the nation's tall timber. Last week the biggest lumber company in the U.S. took another big step to build the forests up again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled...
...Greek's Words. In some respects, though, General Wedemeyer was the most refreshing of all the military witnesses who had appeared in the MacArthur hearing. He clearly had no ax to grind. He admitted freely that he had not always been right in the past. At one point, he said: "I don't believe the military has ever solved an international problem, nor will. It just expands, perpetuates and breeds hate and suspicion." When a Senator asked a puzzler, Wedemeyer would admit to puzzlement. "Senator," he told Oregon's Wayne Morse in one exchange, "that...
Below these layers they went through a large rockfall to hit glacial gravel of the Pleistocene. After the discovery of a rare hand ax, tension in the deep hole grew as thick as the close air below the cave floor. Then, in the sputtering light of a Coleman lamp, the Iranian workmen disinterred the skeletons of the three prehistoric men who had met sudden death there some 75,000 years...
Czech officials snapped like kindling under the purge ax. After arresting former Foreign Minister Clementis as a "spy," Czechoslovakia's Red bosses went after his appointees. The Czech ambassador to India, Bohuslav Kratochvil, refused to go home, instead chose freedom in Britain (TIME, March 12). Less smart were three of his colleagues. When called to Prague for "consultation," they obeyed, and were promptly shunted to minor jobs. The three...
...often as not his shoes have holes in them. He eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos is a 25-year-old farmer...