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...above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...London dispatch to the New York Times said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
...timely provider of both was sprawling Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co., owner of the U.S.'s largest unbleached sulphite pulp mill at Bellingham, Wash., and first U.S. pulp mill in this war to manufacture alcohol from wood-pulp wastes...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, inspecting U.S. forces now under his command (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), visited the U.S. 104th Infantry Division, commanded by battlewise Major General Terry Allen, expressed admiration for the timber-wolfhead insigne worn by the 104th. Allen promptly ripped off his shoulder patch, gave it to besweatered, bereted Monty...
...also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits. It was one of the biggest lumber deals in U.S. history...