Word: forested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe buzzed excitedly about Mr. Roosevelt's ominous, mysterious "reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able...
Charles L. Burwell, Edward L. Cherbonnier, J. Donald Enterline, and Robert E. Lane were the seniors nominated for the Class Marshal post. The additional name put up for Class Treasurer was Forest W. Stearns...
...inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley...
Largely on or near public forest and park lands, CCC by 1938's end had planted 1,456,973,900 trees; put in 8,594,829 man-days at fire fighting & prevention; completed 102,004 miles of trails and roads; killed uncounted millions of prairie dogs, pocket gophers, jackrabbits, practiced "rodent control" on 30,774,000 infested acres; "re-vegetated" (grassed) 267,600 acres of grazing lands; built 41,960 bridges, 5,181 large dams, 3,612 towers and stations for fire lookouts, 68,990 miles of telephone line...
...hour for lunch, off work at 4 p.m.; mail at 4:30; change to Army issue olive drab or khaki for formation and "dress inspection" (instituted a year ago to spruce up the corps) at 5 p.m. Last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt authorized a new forest green uniform, to be issued next fall-when the corps may be not only distinctive but permanent...