Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LUCIFER IN PINE LAKE-Samuel Rogers -Little, Brown ($2.50). Told with detached and crushingly cumulative irony, the story of a handsome university professor whose selfishness wrecks his marriage, leaves him hoping that an early next war will annihilate himself and everything else; fifth and best book by the $10,000 prize-winning author of Dusk at the Grove...
...dinner the conversation was as varied as the conversants. Shirley Temple and the Supreme Court; "Last Year's Kisses" and Professor So-and-So; the tax on undistributed corporate earnings and the virtues of Pine Manor; all met in mid-air with remarkable harmony...
Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...
Backed by the Chemical Foundation, Dr. Herty four years ago commercially made newsprint of Southern pine in a Canadian mill. Last week a more important milestone in the incipient Southern newsprint industry was passed when engineers were commissioned to find a site for "the first Southern newsprint mill," which will be located in 60,000 acres of East Texas pineland...
...proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill, and others like it, can give them all the newsprint they want for around...