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...beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough for all the world if it could be milled into usable newsprint as it is already being milled into wrapping paper...
...Washington at latest reports Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito was uncertain whether or not he was being called home to become Foreign Minister, as correspondents were cabling from Tokyo. The Army and Navy, besides supplying Cabinet timber for their departments, were reported to want a general as Foreign Minister, at least temporarily, and the High Command was believed to be sitting with Premier-Designate Hayashi, dictating which Japanese politicians would be permitted to be Ministers...
...technicolor is invaluable in a picture of this sort, and the logging sequences are particularly well done. Admirers of tall timber and crashing cataracts will be right in their element...
Recalled from a playboy career in Europe by his brother who heads the family lumber company, Steve Russett (George Brent) lands a plane on a lake in timber that belongs to their arch rival, Jo Barton. When Jo Barton (Beverly Roberts) turns out to be a spitfire blonde, Steve stays on as a lumberjack, works up to foreman before Jo finds out who he is. By the time she fires him as a spy, they are in love. This complicates his brother's scheme to force Jo to sell him her land by engineering a jam of Barton logs...
...collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string of two-year-olds. Then Good Harvest ran a piece of timber through his chest that killed him. Discovery, theretofore the most dependable horse in the U. S.. ran so badly he had to be retired. Last week, at Santa Anita's opening, Vanderbilt horses failed to finish in the money...