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This week Weyerhaeuser proudly announced that it has developed products to use tree bark, thus utilize the 12% of a Douglas fir log that was formerly thrown away or burned as sawmill boiler fuel...
Apparently the Labor Department was seeking to bring Craig and Berine together fir the first time in the three-months long negotiations to try to get them to agree on an arbitration plan...
...dawn came, field authorities started rescue parties across the fir-patched barrens. There seemed to be no logical explanation for the crash, The plane's flight from New York to Newfoundland had been without incident. There had been a delay at Harmon, but for purely routine reasons. Weather had shut it out of Gander Airport, where a relief crew waited, and CAB rules had kept the plane grounded for twelve hours while its pilots slept. An engine check, made during the delay, revealed that all its power plants were functioning perfectly...
There is no mountain worthy of the name within hundreds of miles, but the townsfolk of New Glarus, Wis. (pop. 1,068) like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...
Race against Time. Into the project, which rivaled the building of the Pyramids, went Chinese rock and Chinese earth, Mississippi flood mats and Douglas fir pilings from the forests of the Pacific Northwest; into it also went UNRRA money and UNRRA grain. But the most important contribution was Chinese hands -200,000 of them-working night...