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...Acute Shortage." Indignant, the British National Farmers' Union complained that its members are being undersold in the home market by "Russian grain, fruit, butter, eggs, sugar and timber . . . despite the acute shortage of these products in Russia...
...Each group of three had to prepare 14 logs of heavy timber each day. The logs were at least three feet in diameter and at least 33 ft. long. To heap the logs in even piles took us sometimes as long as 14 hours...
...greatest U. S. match company, and in a demoralized U. S. industry. Diamond Match's assets at the end of last year were $27,000,000. Of this, $1 represented patents and goodwill although 20 years ago this item came to $4,000,000. Diamond has great timber stands in California, Maine, Idaho and other states. It owns many lumber yards, 40 of which are in California's Sacramento Valley. Its products have been extended as conditions in the match business became worse. Diamond Match now makes toothpicks, fence posts, golf-tees, home-building materials, waxed paper, toilet...
...remaining four are of lesser timber. "Holiday in Buenos Aires" describes that city in the sixties. "The Devil in Pago Chico" is the tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites...
...general Soviet order for use of convicts in the lumber industry; 2) affidavits of escaped prisoners from a lumber camp. It developed that the "escaped prisoners" were not from the pulpwood forests along the Dvina River, but from the island of Silesky, 1,200 mi. away, where no export timber is cut. Mr. Lowman, it appeared, had never studied Russia's geography very closely...