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...another four hours was the wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
Having reshuffled her political affiliations along with her husband's, Mrs. Davies now has other outlets for her amazing talents. She could, if she would, back her prospective step-son-in-law, Senator Tydings, who is rated Presidential timber for the Democratic nomination in 1940. Last week, however, she merely whisked her new husband off to Nassau, there to board her Sea Cloud for a honeymoon cruise...
President Quezon knows well what most Filipinos have yet to discover: that the U. S., in granting independence, is far from purely benevolent. Long ago the Philippines outdealt the New Deal in the matter of socialized industry. The Islands' 72,000 sq. mi. of timber are 99% owned by the Government, forested by license. The rich iron mines of Mindanao (second biggest island, after Luzon) are a Government reservation. It owns and works the coal deposits of Batan Island. It has taken over the Philippine Railroad. But to private enterprise is left the all-important agricultural industry, which since...
...Sweden, skilled in neutrality, last week analyzed the League's sanctions against Italy in a practical light. Finding that Sweden imports from Italy only fruit and wine, the Foreign Affairs Committee wholeheartedly agreed to restrict Italian imports. Exports to Italy, however, were different, including as they do cellulose, timber, iron, steel. Sagely the Committee tabled the subject of restricting Swedish exports to Italy...
...addition to the venerable monarchs of the Yard, Harvard owns millions of trees on a 2.200 acre tract in Worcester County some 75 miles west of Boston. Scattered fragments of primeval timber and a great variety of all stages of regrowth are included in the Harvard Forest. A thousand acres have been set aside as a bird refuge to be administered by the University and the State. Instruction at the Forest is given graduate men working in forestry...