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...seen such a tumult over timbering since the great conservationist Gifford Pinchot took on bureaucrats and lumber barons at the turn of the century. On one side are the U.S. Forest Service and the $57 billion-a-year wood-products industry. Opposing them is a coalition of environmental groups. At stake: how the nation's 183 million acres of federally owned forest should be managed-including how much timber should be taken out of them...
...Georgia-Pacific, are not seriously affected, because they mostly log their own lands. But other giants and nearly all the small independent producers are in big trouble. Says Gerald McChesney, president of Fort Vancouver Plywood Co. in Washington: "This could kill us-99% of our timber comes from the Pinchot National Forest." As for prices, predicts Lewis Krauss, partner in the Rough & Ready Timber Co. of Cave Junction, Ore.: "We could have a wood crunch as bad as the oil crunch of two years...
...another chapter to John Kennedy's lengthening Lothario legend. The central figure this time is Mary Pinchot Meyer, an attractive, well-connected Washington artist who was the sister-in-law of Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. As former Post Vice President James Truitt recently told the National Enquirer, Kennedy's liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some...
...coal liquefaction and shale oil production in the 1920's, congratulated the engineers responsible saying. "You men have proved something more valuable than any other researchers in the federal government. We now know that we have enough cheap oil in our coals to last for ever." But Gifford Pinchot, the conservationist, had enough experience with the power of large companies acting in collusion to warn, "The fuels trust will never permit the shale oil and oil from coals projects to get developed unless they own them...
...Pinchot's propheev has been fulfilled. The nation's oil companies represent a valuable reservoir of technology and capital, but when they act together with the connivance of government, the companies wield economic power sufficient to present the use of American energy sources in a manner consistent with the national interest. The oil industry's opposition to coal liquefaction, cheap shale oil and the stretching of domestic oil supplies through methynol production has caused a tremendous waste of natural resources and a large scale misallocation of technology and capital...