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...virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left...
Seedlings & Time. Smoke boiled 10,000 ft. into the sky; the fire raced with the wind through a deep-timbered basin towards the Boole sequoia (world's third largest) and towards the steep gorges of the Kings Canyon, as deep in places as the Grand Canyon. "If it jumps down," said Geil, "we're in trouble. That's mankiller country. If we don't catch her here, there's no stopping her. She could go for miles on both sides of the river...
...three days firebreaks were slashed through the forest with 'dozers on the flat and hand tools on the steep slopes. Again and again the fire lunged across. Along Mill Flat Creek on the fourth day, the crews prepared a 20-ft. break and a final stand. All morning they stamped out blazes flaring up across the line. But at 2 p.m. the fire roared across, raced three miles in 38 minutes, destroyed a fresh 4,000-acre tract of prime timber - 2,000,000 trees-before evening. "This," said one ranger, "is a classic fire...
...steep rise in auto credit brought a flashing-red danger signal last week from General Motors Acceptance Corp., biggest U.S. auto-finance company. Said G.M.A.C. to G.M. dealers: "Some customers who should buy used cars are being induced through 'easy terms' to take new cars. And some people who ordinarily would buy a lower-priced new car are 'easy-termed' into a bigger, more expensive model...
...days after the new Congress organized in January, Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright gave business its first big scare. Chatting with a newsman right after he became chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Fulbright was asked if he would look into, among other things, the steep rise in the stock market. Why, yes, said Fulbright, "we ought to have a look." The headlines that followed his off-the-cuff answer caused Wall Streeters to brace themselves for something like the Pecora investigation...