Word: timber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told: 1) that the pine beetle was destroying $15,000,000 of timber annually, while the Government had only five poorly paid entomologists combating the pest; 2) that the Government has failed to make proper provision for leasing its grazing areas to cattlemen who are being ruined by high fees, and uncertain tenure of land; 3) that owners of small tracts of land inclosed in or near Government forest reserves are being squeezed out by large timber interests that lease the Government reserves; 4) that Secretary of the Interior Work was antagonistic to the development of the irrigation projects...
...make an investigation into the administration of the Department of the Interior with the special purpose of looking into the matter of grazing on the public lands. But the Committee has decided that its authority is wide enough to comprehend investigation of reclamation projects, the forestry bureau and timber lands, water power development, mining and probably national parks and Indian affairs as well-all matters in the province of the Department of the Interior. On Aug. 26, it will start like a great Juggernaut upon its inquisitorial path...
...latitude is a line that exists only in the imagination, and it looks as though it were going to cease to exist even there. The borderline exists by virtue of a treaty that is respected by both sides, but when your mines are ruled, your water powers exploited, your timber limits seized upon- all for the benefit of the alien living on the other side; and when, after taking all your natural resources, shipping them to the United States and selling them back to us as manufactured products, the hearts and souls of your children are turned American...
Under Dean Alfred H. Lloyd of her Graduate School as acting president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory...
...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...