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...report on slave labor in the Soviet Union had asserted that slave labor forces, supervised by the secret police, accounted for 12.5% of Russia's timber production, 10% of her furniture and kitchenware and 40% of her chromium ores. It also said that the categories of persons listed by the M.V.D. as criminals to be used for forced labor included: liberals, members of Jewish organizations, mystics, industrialists, owners of large houses, persons who have been in the diplomatic service and relatives of persons who have escaped abroad...
Invasion from the mainland is only part of the Red threat. Hiding in the Five Finger Mountains, whose timber-clad ridges reach up 7,000 feet in central...
After nine months of negotiating, Britain and Yugoslavia last week signed a five-year trade agreement. It called for a ?110 million ($308,100,000) volume of trade each way. Yugoslavia will get an ?8,000,000 loan, payable in five years. The Yugoslavs will exchange timber, corn and non-ferrous metals for British machinery, wool, chemicals and rubber products. At the same time, the two governments agreed to a settlement of ?4,500,000 for British property nationalized by Yugoslavia. Only four days before, the Yugoslav government had concluded a $126 million one-year trade agreement with Western Germany...
Green Thumb. He also campaigned tirelessly to educate Southerners in the economic importance of growing timber on submarginal Texas farm land. While his own companies planted more than they cut on their 250,000 acres, they gave farmers about 2,000,000 pine seedlings a year to rebuild depleted timber stands. With his newsprint plant furnishing an expanding market, Kurth estimates that farmers can get $5 to $7 an acre every year from timber alone, and "you don't need a subsidy or price support program...
...next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they do it economically. But that land won't grow a third of the timber we can grow here in the South...