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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slash Pine. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Savannah has fostered paper making in the cut-over pine lands and swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Farm & Factory | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Miles is most prominent as a critic and playwright, although he has had considerable experience as a director. He collaborated with John Colton, author of "Rain," and "Shanghai Gesture," in writing the play "9 Pine St.," and his other plays include 'Portrait of Gilbert" and "The Granite Lady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May 3, 4 Chosen as Dates for Dramatic Club Production | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Strategic Retreat | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...November Sunday no one gave flowers. Here was a problem. . . . It was met by bringing an armful of white pine branches from the country. In each vase of soft feathery green were inserted a few branches of brilliant autumn leaves. The effect was 'different,' and caused much favorable comment. The symbolism was rather nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Lord's Table | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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