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...most impoverished by the variability of marking. All trees to be cut on a sale are marked by a Forest Service Ranger to insure that enough will be left for sufficient reproduction. Most of the profit in lumber is made from the larger trees which contain the select, high-priced lumber. But usually on a sale to small company, few large trees are marked. A small operator has no control over Forest Service marking...
Committees to select the teams for the NCAA hockey tournament March 14-16 at Colorado Springs were announced today by Rules Committee chairman Herb Gallagher...
...select group of Americans there is a global plan of expense-paid travel. In Paris, for example, such a privileged person may be met on arrival by an officer of the U.S. Embassy-sometimes fondly called "the Boodle Man." The traveler is handed an envelope containing the boodle: as much as $500 in French francs. From then on, the visitor is on his own, needs only to check in with the embassy's boodle man to replenish his wallet. In 1955 in Paris alone, some 700 Junketeers availed themselves of this service, to the tune...
...Republican minority members disagreed. "In a close reading of the hearings," they said, "we must come to the conclusion that the technical staff presented leading questions to a select group of witnesses . . . Persons with views not in accord with those of the counsel were not given full and fair opportunity to testify." However, added the Republicans, "the facts brought to light by this investigation seem to indicate that Negro leaders, and those actively interested in the advancement of the Negro people, have much work to do among the Negro people, and that all of the difficulties attendant upon integration...
...Herter was elected to the first of five terms in Congress. He led 17 members of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid (among them, California's Richard Nixon) on a trip to Europe in 1947, helped clear the way for congressional approval of the Marshall Plan. An early Eisenhower backer, Herter seemed strangely irked when, in 1952, Massachusetts Republicans urged him to run for governor against Democratic Incumbent Paul Dever. Said he: "You're just trying to get me out of Washington." Reason for his discomfiture: he was confident that Ike would be the next President...