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...even among the second and third generation of the settlers of this virgin land, gave heed to the future results that attended the cutting of the timber which denuded the greater part of the watersheds...
After it defaulted, Price Bros. had a short period of grace to make good. Knowing there were only some $11,000,000 of bonds out against saw mills, power sites, 8,000 square miles of timber, two newsprint mills capable of 1,100 tons daily, the bondholders' committee prepared to hang on. Meanwhile many a potent user and producer of newsprint eyed the ailing company's assets with interest. When the bankruptcy ax finally fell eight months later, officers began to appear from such sources as Britain's Bowater's Paper Mills Ltd., a syndicate headed...
Died. Conchita Supervia, 37, famed Spanish coloratura mezzo-soprano, wife of a British timber merchant named Ben Rubenstein; in childbirth; in London. Beauteous Mme Supervia once appeared with the Chicago Civic Opera Company (TIME...
They get their rosin, turpentine and pine oil not from sawdust but from the dead stumps in cut-over Southern timber land-the deader the better. The stumps are either pulled by large wallowing machines or dynamited, depending on the soil and the quality of the stumps. Hercules, which makes dynamite, generally pulls its stumps. Newport, which makes no dynamite, generally blasts them. The stumps are then shredded and steamed. Turpentine and some pine oil are the first distillates, and the residue is treated under pressure with gasoline to extract the rosin and pine...
...limb wouldn't hold. So down into the water he went to try swimming across. Sturdily, since he was a good swimmer with long staying power, he dog-paddled along. Suddenly, he looked to his right, and there rushing down on him was a great big stick of timber. In large, red letters on the side was the label, "Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export Interests" had not suddenly appeared and bumped the big log away, the little child night have been drowned. As it was the collision of the two caused...