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...career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give it away?" He wrote a book about how the firefly lights up. He hunted (and failed...
...them started, will arrive in Santo Domingo this spring. They will be settled on a smiling plot of 26,685 acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the extent of 24 dwellings, a reservoir, 4,950 acres of cultivated pasture land and abundant timber. All this was donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter to President James N. Rosenberg of the Dominican Republic...
...Donahue, after hopping the hedges for a smooth 7.5 in the 60 yard hurdles had only a sixth place for consolation in the finals. Scorning a knee that swelled after hiting a hurdle in the semifinals, the fighting timber-topper led the field up to the first obstacle in the final, but lost his balance and his lead when he clipped the board...
Kingsport, Tenn. (pop.: 11,914) lies among mountains full of Southern hardwood, not far from the coal fields of Virginia. Acquiring 40,000 acres of timber land in 1920, the No. 1 camera and film maker built a plant in Kingsport to distill methanol from waste "chemical wood" (limbs & tops, slabs & ends). They called their new subsidiary Tennessee Eastman Corp...
...uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...