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...when loggers cut the last stand of nearby virgin fir, was coming back to life last week. Roaring through the long-silent streets, construction gangs completed the main building of a $20 million plant in which Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. will next year turn second-growth timber into pulp products...
...timberland prices soared (up as much as 1,700% in 18 years). Many companies have also diversified to make full use of their tim ber reserves, e.g., western alder, long bypassed when redwood and Douglas fir forests were logged solely for lumber, is now widely cut for wood pulp...
...same time, the small, one-product companies that once ruled the woods are yielding to corporate Paul Bunyans. To make the most of every shaving and splinter, lumber companies are branching into paper and pulp production; paper companies are pushing into lumber manufacture. Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips...
...ends a bit better than that, and on the way, Author De Vries has punned the reader to a pulp, winded him with laughs, and done what only truly funny writers can do: exhibit man, frail and vulnerable, with such true ludicrousness that what starts as a belly laugh winds up as a rueful smile...
...regulars who have long since sent their consciences on permanent leave. Steiner tangles with one of them, his Führer-minded C.O., and exposes him for the cowardly lump of jelly he is. In the meantime even the old soldiers die. Dorn and Kern are blasted to shapeless pulp by artillery shells. Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell catches Steiner. "Why are you bawling?" he asks the only old platoon member left to mourn...