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Fifty years ago last week, Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot organized a Government agency to preserve what was left of the American forest. They were none too soon: in less than three centuries, the pioneers had ripped deeply into the continent's skin of trees, and another century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan...
...back as most steelmen can remember, Chairman Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel Co. had a consuming corporate desire to merge "Bessie," the second biggest U.S. steel company, with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the nation's No. 6 steelmaker. Grace first tried to turn the trick in 1930, only to be thwarted in court after a proxy battle with Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, who then controlled 19% of Youngstown stock. This year, at 78, Bethlehem's Chairman Grace announced that Bessie and Youngstown were again planning to merge. Last week the Justice Department, which has been cool...
...went to work for RCA in 1935, to Schick in 1944, and back to RCA in 1945, where he had the job of introducing RCA-TV sets. In January he became executive vice-president in charge of consumer products. In going to Schick, he takes over from Kenneth C. Gifford, who continues as chairman...
...floor library of Gifford Hall eight boys were at case in sweaters and shirts open at the neck. But five of them were "blowing up a storm." A trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, and drums were whooping up some loud Dixieland jazz. Two fellows were listening and watching; another was studying. Across the street the girls dorms were quiet, their occupants studying...
...however, is working to establish a house for them on campus so that there can be more fraternity-sorority life. The student government is bringing the two parts of the school together, and there is perfect cooperation in all activities. The device of co-chair-5Thursday afternoon in the Gifford Hall library. The Student Union, the girls' dormitories, and the rest of the campus are quiet...