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Great Expectations. In Douai, France, police who arrested Accountant Théophile Dieux, 60, for stealing two bricks from a building under construction, followed him home, found his basement stuffed with bricks, timber, nails, iron bars, flooring, window frames, lime, paint, nuts & bolts, heard him explain that he had spent the last 32 years gathering items on his way home from work in order to build a country house, but the process had been so slow that the tools he stole 20 years ago to do the job are now completely rusted away...
...chamber of commerce, or put up a building for a Northern industry, Ham Moses was there with the know-how-and often some Arkansas Power & Light funds. By such tactics, Arkansas snagged $854 million in new plants since World War II, including light metals, petrochemicals, and a growing timber and cattle business...
...Planting and natural growth must replace not only the timber cut down for use, but that destroyed by fire, insects and disease as well. In the South, for instance, fires destroyed 13,695,417 acres of forestland in 1950, an amount approximately equal to that cut for pulp and paper during the year...
Background: Born at Randolph, Tenn. on July 28, 1893, the son of a timber contractor. His mother died when he was young, and he spent most of his early years on his grandfather's farm in western Tennessee. Educated at the University of Arkansas and Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. (B.A. 1918). Served overseas in World War I as an Army Medical Corpsman. After studying in Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University in 1921, later got his first D.D. (honoris causa) at Hendrix...
Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...