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...years ago a $350,000,000 forest fire swept over 250,000 acres of Oregon's finest stand of Douglas fir and hemlock. It ravaged more standing timber (mostly in Tillamook County) than the entire U.S. consumed in 1933. Last week logging crews (called "Tillamook minstrels"-the charred bark makes them look like a blackface act) were still carrying on their ten-year race to salvage the billions of board feet of timber (see cut) not yet ruined by the insects that always move in after a big burn...
...John Francis Grey Swales, existence in West Hartlepool consisted largely of a dingy room in Temperance Street, frequent turns in grey prisons. So it did not seem particularly blackhearted of the iron and timber merchant, Harold Clarke, that he should want his wife "done away with...
...there going to be a shortage of lumber in the timber-rich U.S.? If so, why, and what will cure it? These were the crucial questions that the Senate's hardworking Truman Committee asked U.S. lumber authorities last week. The Senators got mostly equivocal answers but they brought to light a Washington wrangle that has been seething for months-and now has ended on the President's desk...
...Siberian and Ural miners worked twelve-hour shifts digging coal for Russia's railroads and metallurgical plants. North of Moscow 80,000 city officeworkers felled timber for firewood. Logs were transported by barge, train, bus and trolley car to the capital. After classes and on Sundays pupils and teachers toted firewood to their schools...
Then the world of Miss Weekes, Mr. Stevenson and 58 English schoolboys seemed to explode. The headmaster flung himself on top of one of his pupils to protect him as bricks and timber crashed...