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Into this last-chance gamble Hitler has thrown many of his still vast resources. From the inland industrial centers of the Ruhr he can spawn his raiders and send them across the world. The biggest craft are launched into the Baltic and the North Sea. Smaller craft can be floated through river and canal arteries across the face of France, spewed out into the English Channel through the Seine, into the Mediterranean through the Saone-Rhone Rivers, into the Bay of Biscay through the Loire River...
This is the latest chapter in the utilization of lignin-the greatest industrial-waste on earth. In time, chemists believe, it will spawn as many useful derivatives as coal tar and become the basis of a great chemical industry. But so far, in spite of 40 years of head-scratching and an increasing number of derivatives, chemists have found uses for less than .05% of the 3,000,000 tons of lignin available each year in the U.S. and Canada. Yet lignin production goes merrily on, for it must be removed from wood pulp before the pulp is made into...
Those were the days when you could see the salmon fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of them all, weighing maybe 50 lb., break through a shallow rapid like a torpedo. If you were still luckier you might catch one. Because the fish come up small streams, perhaps only six feet across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your...
...Heart of the North, not to be confused with Spawn of the North (TIME, Sept. 5), Warner Bros, dumped 1,500 Ibs. of dye into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...
...typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English 30, or of Dewing when he thought of Ec. 61? Last year they did, but that was in the Old familiar room. When he had sat on his windowseat there...