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...wraps off some of his 300,000 troops, and the jest proved just a jest. In Ljubljana gap, the mountain corridor leading from the Hungarian plains to Zagreb, Rijeka and Trieste, a group of military observers and reporters from six NATO nations watched while 65,000 Yugoslavs maneuvered. Spruce and high-spirited, they were divided into an "aggressor" force and a defending force covering Zagreb. They maneuvered with Sherman tanks, trucks, jeeps, 90-mm. guns, U.S.-made F47 fighters (World War II's Thunderbolts) and British Mosquitoes, and they handled them with facility...
...world's largest manufacturer of bowling and billiard equipment, Chicago's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. long ago found it profitable to spruce up bowling alleys and poolrooms, help turn them into recreation halls fit for schoolchildren. Last week Brunswick-Balke went into the classroom itself; it began making a line of school furniture...
...ordered ancient spruce trees hacked down at many street corners to improve vision and was fiercely attacked by ladies of the city's garden clubs. He explained: Ladies, when we trimmed the petticoats ott those old spruces, we saw some of the funniest limbs in all Denver. Modesty alone dictates that we chop them down. . . " The ladies were not amused...
Critic Lewis Mumford's observation that we are living in a "paper civilization" is no news to TIME's production people. An average issue of TIME uses 485 tons of paper, made from Canadian spruce, western hemlock and Lake States poplar. But TIME's paper suppliers are all engaged in replenishing as well as using their valuable natural resources. All the companies from which TIME buys paper-Mead Corp., Consolidated Water Power and Paper Co., Crown Zellerbach Corp. and St. Regis Paper Co.-are actively engaged in conservation and reforestation programs, planting millions of seedlings each year...
...dust was settling over the ruin at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided that the U.S. Fleet needed a new commander. He chose a man who was tall, straight as the spruce spar of an old ship-of-the-line, and as hard as the chrome-steel armor around his own battleships. His name was Ernest Joseph King. Nobody has ever offered a better explanation for his selection than King himself gave when he arrived in Washington to take over: "When they get into trouble, they send for the sons of bitches...