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WILLIAM E. BOEING, founder of Boeing Airplane Co. (TIME, July 19), who retired in 1934 to devote all his time to his lumber business, has just closed one of the Northwest's biggest timber deals. For $13 million, Boeing has sold his 23,000-acre tract (1 billion bd. ft.) of fir along the Oregon coast to Georgia-Pacific Plywood...
...effects. Last week Dr. Rene Pomerleau, of the Canadian government's forest pathology laboratory, warned that birch forests are dying all over northern New England and eastern Canada. After a few seasons of unusually high soil temperatures, the trees die back at the tops. Already, said Pomerleau, much timber has been affected. If the dying trees are not harvested soon, fungi will destroy them...
...mill on the Thames near London, and another near Liverpool, to supply several mass-circulation London dailies. He acquired timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...
...that it existed; various deeds and letters established that much. But as late as 1877, Andrew McFarland Davis, in a paper for the American Antiquarian Society, was still wondering where it was. Somewhere in, or under, or near the College Yard, the remains of a three story stone and timber dwelling lay concealed...
...Goffe's, who lived next door, the new neighbors must have seemed a curious lot. The Professor, as they called him, showed himself to be no mean handy man around the house; one of his first acts was to enclose his lot with a six-and-a-half-foot timber paling...