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...disease which started in New York City before 1910. Since then there have been many attempts to find or breed blight-resistant chestnuts. Most of the new or introduced trees were unsuited to the climate, or they required too much care, or they produced poor nuts or low-grade timber. None had all the qualities of the old trees...
...when in 1932 Seattle bankers asked Ottinger to take over a big plywood mill that faced bankruptcy. His stiff terms: 50% of all profits and none of the losses. The bankers agreed, and wisely; the mill has made profits ever since. Ottinger bought other mills, acquired vast stands of timber...
...didn't matter to the longshoremen that it was the British, not the Russians, who stood to lose on the crab meat (which had been foisted on the British by Russia in place of promised timber). Similarly, the furs had already been bought by U.S. furriers; Russia wouldn't lose a kopeck on them. To the A.F.L. longshoremen the issue was simple: they were all Russian goods. Said a dockers' spokesman: "Let them send their crab meat ... to the Reds in North Korea-that's where they are sending their tanks, guns [and] planes...
...Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
North Korea produces more than tigers and timber. It has 75% of all the industry on the peninsula and in the Musan fields of the far northeast lie Korea's largest iron deposits; from the northern mountains come gold, copper and most of the country's coal-anthracite, bituminous and lignite...