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What most astonished many a soldier reader of the Library bulletin was the language of the Library's recommendation of the article: "a comprehensive and objective appraisal of the General as Presidential timber, with special reference to the character of his backers and an analysis of his military reputation before Pearl Harbor and afterwards...
Wolfs Clothing. In Union City, N.J., Deputy City Game Warden William Kuhn conjectured that the timber wolf prowling the Hudson County marshland had probably entered from Canada last December- in a carload of Christmas trees...
...debate grew detailed. Leader Barkley nailed the President's false classification of social-security taxes as general revenue. Bringing up his point against the timber tax, Mr. Roosevelt reminded the leaders that he is a treegrower himself. Politely but firmly, Barkley declared that the President's annual crop of quick-growing Christmas "bushes" cannot be compared with the once-a-generation harvest of slow-growing commercial timber...
...western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound, he often follows a trail for days before he makes the kill...
...Homes were torn down, the timber sold for firewood and the rest of the houses sold brick by brick. Roads leading to the markets were strewn with corpses...