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William S. Hart, lantern-jawed hero of the pioneer horse-operas, battled three grass and timber fires that nearly destroyed his 300-acre ranch in Newhall, Calif. Outbuildings, some 3,000 trees, and all the grass on the land were burned...
Although not yet extant a century, the history of the Harvard Union has been as erratically interesting as the oldest timber in the Yard, reflecting throughout the popular theme of social transition...
...criminal. And he was a king who had won his crown. Born to a Swedish export dealer 61 years ago, Axel went to the U.S., worked in a New Jersey factory for 15? an hour, returned to Sweden, got a start in vacuum cleaners, spread out to refrigerators, timber, wood pulp, steel, munitions, airplanes. He married a girl he met on shipboard a girl from the U.S. wheat belt who was deemed a beauty. From 1935 on, he poked into the hornets' nest of European power politics. He was for peace. He thought that big men, powerful men like...
From the mountains of New England to the shaggy slopes of Georgia's hills, flames ate greedily at priceless timber. Red-eyed, smoke-bleary, smudge-blackened men fought, cursed, touched off backfires. Out over the Atlantic rolled billows of smoke, swept east by the prevailing winds. Airmen on patrol for submarines groped through the haze...
Forest sabotage is no wartime novelty. The U.S. experienced it in 1917-18. As mile after mile of tall timber was reduced last week to black stumps the Forest Service schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...