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...Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass., will be the scene of a new type of course for the next ten days. For the first time in any University, a course in forest aerial photography is being offered to timber operators, foresters, and representatives of pulp and paper companies...
...people in the world. But U.S. basic resources had suffered what might be an irreparable drain. Said an anxious Mead Committee report fortnight ago: war has left the U.S. with only enough oil for twelve years (at present production rates), enough iron ore for eight years, a seriously depleted timber supply...
...Riga timber merchant, Berlin emigrated to Britain as a young man and spent most of his adult life in or near Oxford. He speaks English, German, Russian, French, is an authority on Karl Marx, Greek philosophy, Russian literature and music, the U.S. Congress and politics. He was one of few men at the Embassy who foresaw Britain's Labor victory...
...their wild Irish hell-raising, one chronicler wrote: "Champagne corks popped among the section bosses, barrels of whiskey floated the spirits of the laborers higher than the howls of timber wolves in the forests. Lurching between the roaring shacks they showed off their tricks of close-in fighting, western-and highly personal-marksmanship; their excitingly various ways of love-making . . . violent . . . dangerous. Timber-cutters charged down from their mountain camps and raided the effete shovel heavers like Apaches. The shovel-heavers raided back and returned with blood on the ends of their picks...
Hardly an eyebrow lifted when in Manhattan last week a dust-filled, muscular, melodramatic painting was knocked down for that fancy price. The painting: A Dash for Timber, by Frederic Remington, No. 1 painter-illustrator of the old Wild West, fast friend of Teddy Roosevelt. Was $23,000 high...