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...years, conservationists have been fighting a losing battle to save the redwoods. Their mahogany-hued, durable lumber (it virtually defies dry rot) is highly prized for its structural and decorative uses. To date, the battle has gone to the chainsaw. Where there were once 2,000,000 acres of virgin redwoods, only 250,000 stand today. Last week, as Congress sent to President Johnson a bill establishing the nation's first Redwood National Forest, the conservationists won a significant victory...
...McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies are cutting the trees and spoiling the chances of saving it as a national forest." Backed by Dugger as editor-at-large, Olds intends to rekindle the Observer's old fire-and Texans can again expect to feel the heat...
Tiny Daniels, Md. (pop. 381), is one of the last examples of that almost vanished bit of Americana, the company town, which once ranged from Western mine and lumber settlements to Southern cotton camps. Somehow, Daniels, nestled in a wooded hollow along a back road eleven miles west of Baltimore, has managed to survive. Its company store, company houses, company-dominated churches and company mill-its raison d'être-all remained intact in the age of the megalopolis...
...from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew the region from wartime service. Trans-Med hauled heavy machinery and baby chickens, dynamite and guns. "Weapons to me," says Abu-Haidar today, "are the same as pieces of lumber. A European government charters one of my planes and asks me to haul rifles to Algeria. What do I do, let someone else have the business...
...list of jobs that women are doing is almost endless. In Canada, lumberjacks have been joined by lumber-Jills. In the U.S. this summer, the Good Humor man may as often as not be a Good Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters...