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...Canada's forests were going up in smoke. In Toronto last week, Forestry Expert Howard Kennedy reported to Premier George Drew on a 15-month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
Despite Boston sportscribes like Dave Egan, who continued to scream editorially about what he called "the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvards. . . here in a corner of the country where college (athletes) are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs," the Crimson athletic situation was looking up this past year...
...Association of American Railroads ordered Eastern and Western lines to deliver 1,600 cars a day to wheat-belt roads. That is well over the 1,200-a-day quota for last year, when wheat rotted on the ground. But there is no guarantee that the roads will get the 1,600, as all are short of cars. Car production is still low. Manufacturers delivered an estimated 4,000 new freight cars last month, about half of them boxcars. But every month the railroads, run flat-wheeled during the war, have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn...
...called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect upon real prices...
...started supporting them above parity in the fear that they would drop below. On this reasoning, it had bought $100,000,000 worth of potatoes last year, of which it recouped $20,000,000 by sales to distillers. The rest were taken off the market and allowed to rot to keep the price above the guaranteed support levels. A month ago, the Department bought nearly $1,000,000 worth of turkeys and took them off the market, though turkeys are well above parity...