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Companies selling firewood to Harvard students are enjoying higher sales and higher prices as a result of the threatened heating fuel shortage this winter...
...many people are coming to buy wood that the price of a two-bushel basket of firewood which sold for $3 last year now sells for $4--a 33-per-cent increase...
Caswell said most of the wood sold by T&B comes from farmers in New Hampshire who cut down tall trees from their lands. The farmers sell the timber to lumber companies and sell the top sections of the trees to firewood distributors...
...size of the tree. Under Harvard's investment policies, only the fruit is allowed to be picked and sold for money to cover current university expenditures. The additional growth of the tree, in terms of new branches and height, should not be chopped off and sold for firewood because if this is done, the amount of fruit will not increase next year in pace with costs...
...unions in the city recently set up a refugee camp in a middle-class neighborhood to house 2,000 people in dozens of newly built jute lean-tos. A nearby market donates 440 lbs. of vegetables daily and the Salvation Army provides milk. Private companies are giving coal and firewood. "The basic problem is malnutrition," says Dr. K.R. Toraskar, one of three physicians who provide medical services at the camp without charge. "There is no starvation in Bombay, but I don't know about the districts. The cattle certainly are starving...