Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only twice in her life: on tours to Canada and Cuba. Her father ran a drugstore in St. Louis. Her mother, Clara Stuhr, was famous among the Midwest's German-American singing societies for her soprano. Traubel herself got an early reputation as the best belly-flopper among Forest Park's sledders, a massive destroyer of chocolate ice-cream sodas, and an almost maniacal fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. At 15, with her mother's help, she began slowly and methodically cultivating her voice. She continued doing so, in relative obscurity, for more than 20 years...
...years ago a $350,000,000 forest fire swept over 250,000 acres of Oregon's finest stand of Douglas fir and hemlock. It ravaged more standing timber (mostly in Tillamook County) than the entire U.S. consumed in 1933. Last week logging crews (called "Tillamook minstrels"-the charred bark makes them look like a blackface act) were still carrying on their ten-year race to salvage the billions of board feet of timber (see cut) not yet ruined by the insects that always move in after a big burn...
...command wants recruits from 20 to 36 (with two years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast...
Conscientious objectors who want courageous, if noncombatant, wartime work learned last week that they might get it. In June, Selective Service will start giving some 60 conchies the stiff Army and Marine parachute training course. The purpose: to fight forest fires. They will probably be stationed at Missoula, Mont., regional Forest Service headquarters, center of a rugged and remote fire area...
...Government's plan will not only serve to please restless conchies. It is good economics as well: the old method of trekking across mountainous terrain to quench a blaze costs the Forest Service an average of $3,500 per fire; parachutists have been doing the job faster at $247 per fire...