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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber...
His next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they...
Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she...
Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion...
Minute Maid's initial success came when it proved that frozen orange juice could have a fresh-squeezed taste. It got its second boost when it sold Crooner Bing Crosby 20,000 shares of stock at 10? a share and made him a director (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948). As...