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...years an interchange of $2 billion worth of economic development. Donor nations, e.g., Britain, Canada, Australia, have poured in capital and know-how, while recipient nations have exchanged such experts and such know-how as they have, e.g., India has sent four aeronautical engineers to Indonesia; Singapore is teaching timber grading to a Nepalese trainee; two Japanese rice physiologists are scattering seed in Ceylon...
Only ten years ago, the U.S. was cutting its timber much faster than it was growing. But now, Forest Service Chief Richard E. McArdle told the Society of American Foresters last week, the growth of new sawtimber at last almost matches the amount cut down. A comprehensive survey just completed by the Forest Service shows that in 1952 the cut was only 1.03 times growth v. 1.5 times in 1944 and more than five times in 1929. McArdle had a pat on the back for the logging industry: the best-cared-for timberland is that owned by industry...
...borrowed some more, bought about 800 acres along Dry Fork Branch, near Liberty, and set out with grim energy to wring his living from the land. Says Joe Moore: "He paid next to nothing for it-about $3,000-and he got his money back the first year on timber. His aim was to make all the money he could off it." Such an aim is one that Joe, himself a proudly acquisitive type ("I'm stingy. I like to make money."), can passionately admire...
...product of a different day, finds less to respect in some of Sam's methods, because "He didn't think much about the people coming along after him." Old Sam cut down most of the 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...
...Plastinail, a flooring compound that Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. processes out of Douglas fir bark, flows like cement, then hardens, can be nailed like wood...