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...some Soviet timber is cut by "forced labor," but of a peculiar kind. Diarist Knickerbocker reported that these cutters appear to receive the same wages as other Soviet woodsmen. They are forced not to chop wood but to live in certain forest regions where such labor is the only sort in demand...
...Irene Rich she has kept up her vitality and good looks. She was a headliner on the Keith Circuit when she was five, nearly 40 years ago. She went to high school for two years between road-shows. Since the days of her thrillers (Ruth of the Rockies, The Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture...
...square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value of our present British timber stocks on hand...
...received high-handed treatment from the authorities in Leningrad. They obstructed my intended tour of Russian timber areas. They pretended to suspect me of wanting to speculate in their currency...
...make money. Hence, last week the Hearst organization made what many recognized as a logical move: went into the paper business in Canada itself by buying a substantial stock interest (not exceeding 20%) in Canada Power & Paper Corp. Immediately it began negotiations for the acquisition of waterpower rights and timber limits for a mill in Newfoundland. Negotiations were carried on by Hearst through a subsidiary, Dominion Newsprint Co., Ltd. In its turn, Canada Power & Paper acquired a stock interest in that company. There was no cash transaction. The Hearst-Canadian Power deal was the second of recent months to shake...