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While the world's blatant headlines were yammering as though Germany had already swallowed Austria politically, economic alignment-of far greater.immediate importance to both countries-was discussed. To Austria German industry looks hungrily for iron and copper (see map, p. 21) and the Reich can use some Austrian timber. To Austria-which was lost from many of her sources of wealth by the post-War partition of her empire-Germany can offer wider economic horizons if Economic Plan Dictator Goring chooses, and not otherwise. That the two nations may form a customs union is now highly probable. Since...
Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
...collection of economic plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...