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...Shea did not believe them. A U. S. Forest Service official, he had been puzzled by large numbers of fires destroying timber from Louisiana to Virginia. Half of all U. S. forest fires occur in the South. Convinced that nine-tenths of them (nearly 60,000) were started on purpose, he launched an inquiry in the field of social psychology. He found a "typical area" of 440,000 acres in the southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains inhabited by 1,800 families. The forest people there admitted starting fires, but the reasons they gave were evasive or absurd...
...Willkie disorganization of amateurs did their best. Politically speaking, their best was none too good. But by the Convention's second day, a few interested professionals had tiptoed out of the tall timber, taken a look, listened, pledged their cold political steel...
...through the 18th Century, the Spanish tried to get the Rock back. In 1779-83 they and the French besieged it continuously, finally gave up when their fleet of ships reinforced with green timber, cork and rawhide was set afire by red-hot British cannonballs. In that long siege, British General Sir George Elliot lost in action only 333 out of 7,000 men in the face of attackers totaling 40,000. Britain offered to trade Gibraltar for Florida or for Minorca, but the Spanish refused. Spain offered to buy it for $10,000,000 and the British refused...
...eight or nine enthusiasts who are already circulating blank petitions to be signed and sent to the Republican nominating convention in Philadelphia June 24 are banking on a Taft-Dewey deadlock to bring their candidate to the fore as presidential timber...
...England society, the old with the new, as searching as it seems casual. Southerner Daniels put up at the St. Botolph Club in Boston for well-preserved cultural atmosphere. Shivering in a New Hampshire April, he talked to tough farmers and foresters about the Government's work in timber salvage, learned that New England produces less than a fourth as much high-grade timber as it could and should. In Concord, N. H., he watched the State Legislature in session ("the people themselves seemed to have come to Concord, and they looked poor as the land from which many...