Word: forest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover recommended increased appropriations for the foreign service, Prohibition, law enforcement, river & harbor improvements, care of Indians, forest protection...
...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...
...most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from...
...Ontario and Quebec do not get fair returns for their forest wealth, we will have to do something. We can do almost anything, but we do not want to make the price of paper, for when a government intervenes to fix the price of merchandise it does not succeed generally. Our Canadian manufacturers believe that $60 would be a fair return...
...York Times has its own forest and papermills at Kapuskasmy, Ontario...