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...merit system proved itself early in the game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...
Because Englishmen in the 17th Century first exploited Southern pine forests for pine tar & pitch (for calking ships' hulls, tarring rope), pine products are called naval stores. Three hundred years later the same timberlands (from North Carolina to Texas) yielded 80% of the world's turpentine (for thinning paint) and rosin (for soap, paper making, varnishes), still called naval stores. By 1900 this industry was turning out annually 600,000 bbl. of turpentine, 2,000,000 bbl. of rosin, hit $63,500,000 in 1921. Of that lush business, some 60% was in exports. In all those years...
...British tar will tell you that the Nazis have their hands full now, and for a long time to come. English babies are fed on a mixture of milk, pap, and Britannia-rules-the-waves; and the grown babies are not likely to surrender the guiding principle of their life without a struggle. The Empire will fight to the last ship, and with her fleet will go to Davy Jones many a German vessel as well. One may then reasonably wonder how dangerous to American liberty an enervated and depleted Nazi navy will prove, even assuming English defeat...
...Little Oklahoma has become East Salinas, unincorporated, with a population of some 6,000, half of them former migrants. The original Hebbron tract has become Hebbron Heights with new stucco or brightly painted five-room frame houses crowding out vestiges of the old tar-paper shacks...
...Tar Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...