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...Woods. Next day L woman in Seattle sent in a dollar. "Have faith," she wrote. Other dollars followed ($9,474 to date), and Clarence Dirks set to work to build Camano Chapel, as he called it. Nearby farmers, carpenters, plumbers, even visitors from the city lent a hand. A lumber company gave cedar logs, which were hauled out of the forest, free, by a trucker, sized and split by two roofers in return for the butts, which the chapel could not use. Seattle hotel and restaurant men gave enough money for a $2,500 organ. One rainy day, when Dirks...
...Smutty Passages." A bourgeois himself, he hated the bourgeoisie. His displeasure buzzes through the letters, becomes almost shrill after the loss of part of his fortune in a family lumber venture. When the Paris censors declared Madame Bovary immoral, Flaubert was stung in his deepest selfesteem, hit back with fighting fury. As ammunition for the hearing, he collected "the greatest possible number of smutty passages drawn from ecclesiastical writers, particularly from contemporaries." Flaubert routed the prosecution, afterwards exulted in a visceral little report to his brother: "We gave it to them there, hot and strong...
...lost 90% of its virgin commercial timber to fires, insects and the woodman's ax, and trees are still falling about as fast as they are growing. Big U.S. lumber companies have been given most of the blame for this drastic, and usually wasteful leveling of the nation's tall timber. Last week the biggest lumber company in the U.S. took another big step to build the forests up again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled...
...tree farms in the U.S., and 3,109 tree farmers. Many own only 70 to 80 acres of woodland, get a steady return year after year by following Weyerhaeuser's methods. But most tree farming is big business and ties up plenty of capital. Weyerhaeuser and other big lumber companies (e.g., Crown Zellerbach) spend about $37 an acre for such permanent improvements as roads and wide firebreaks, shell out another 35-60? an acre every year for taxes and to maintain fire patrols and clear brush...
...proof of tree farming's success, lumbermen point to the big improvement in U.S. forest growth. In 1918, the U.S. was cutting down 5.8 trees for every new tree that sprouted. This year the ratio has dropped to about i for i. If tree farming continues to spread, lumber companies think that the U.S. may soon be growing more trees than it cuts down...