Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleischaker, New York City; Francis L. Forster, Jr., Providence, R. L.; Bernard D. Frank, Boston; Nathan H. Garrick, Jr., Boston; Charles S. Glesson, Wareham; Landis Gores, Cincinnati, Ohio; James G. Hays, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas L. Higginson, Marshall, Va.; Richard A. Hirschfield, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hughes, Lake Forest, Ill.; Arthur C. Hyman, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; David B. Ingram, Mansfield; Edward F. Kilroy, Roslindale; George J. Kyte, Jr., West Hartford, Conn.; Paul A. Lamothe, Arlington; Sheldon L. Land Cambridge; Jamen D. Lyach, Lowell...
Nature's spring offensive in 1942, said Chairman Norman H. Davis, was "the most devastating combination of natural disasters" the Red Cross had faced since it began relief work in 1881. Not counting floods that swept Pennsylvania two weeks ago, other floods, tornadoes, cloudbursts, ice jams and forest fires in 18 States have killed 250 people, seriously injured 2,300, affected in one way or another some 7,000 families, destroyed houses, business districts, barns, chickens, ducks, geese, hogs, cattle, horses, sheep...
Spring's forest fires struck in an unexpected quarter. Anticipated next summer and autumn were lightning, cigaret and even faggot-set fires in the vast tinderbox of the Northwest, which is as vulnerable to incendiaries as Japan's papery cities. But the late April-early May fires in the East were a flank attack...
...Forest sabotage is no wartime novelty. The U.S. experienced it in 1917-18. As mile after mile of tall timber was reduced last week to black stumps the Forest Service schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...
Complaining in the Senate about a $16,000,000 reduction in an $18,000,000 fire-fighting appropriation proposed by the Forest Service, California's Sheridan Downey called forest-fire control "the most desperate problem in the whole U.S. today...