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...harvest is only half the job. Year round company foresters roam the woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
Today his scouts roam New York City and Paris to acquire tunes and lyrics. Step-for-step dance routines from Oklahoma! and On the Town have turned up among such confections as Broadway Cinderella...
...plant was suddenly flooded with irate letters. Each letter was accompanied by a broken wristwatch marked "Bulov 17" on the dial. Bulova needed only one look at the misspelled trademark to see that they were fakes. Since most of the letters were from Chicago, Bulova hired private detectives to roam through the Loop area looking for the counterfeit Bulovas. Before long they picked up 250 from sidewalk peddlers. Last week Chicago police arrested William Furie, 51, as the ringleader of a group that had sold at least 100,000 phony Bulova watches...
...socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs, 3) check in with the cops every Sunday, 4) avoid saloons, cafes, race tracks and all shady characters except himself...
...captain in World War I's famed Rainbow Division. The marriage lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...