Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about $1,500,000,000 of farm, factory, mine and forest products. Foreign countries must sell to the U. S. goods or services of an equal value or pay in gold. And foreigners have already paid so much gold that many of them have been forced off the gold standard. Japan cannot buy Texas cotton unless she sells electric light bulbs...
...explorer named Collier was pitching his tent in northern Rhodesia. Down a wide lane through the forest he spied a roan antelope, shot it. U. S. copper producers wish he had dropped a rabbit instead. For in its death struggle the antelope kicked up the ground, revealed that the forest lane was caused by a rich vein of copper ore, 200 ft. wide, 10 mi. long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Now owner of the vein is Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd. Six years ago Roan had not been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially...
...Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell moved to strike out both passages. In their defense, Presbyterian Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, said: "Presbyterians practice birth control more than they practice anything else. In our universities there are thousands of young people who are discussing this important problem far more seriously...
...enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint praise. The Vagabond in fact is making a pilgrimage to Sever 11 where Professor Greenough is speaking on Pope, principally to see a man who has actually read not only the "Rape of the Lock" and the "Dunciad," but even "Windsor Forest" and the Epistles. The occasion will be a salutary reminder of several important platitudes about time...
WATSON (William) The Father of the Forest and Other Poems...