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...down. A comprehensive survey just completed by the Forest Service shows that in 1952 the cut was only 1.03 times growth v. 1.5 times in 1944 and more than five times in 1929. McArdle had a pat on the back for the logging industry: the best-cared-for timberland is that owned by industry (13% of the nation's commercial forest) and Government (27%); the other 60%, held by some 4,500,000 private owners, represents the Forest Service's biggest problem in teaching conservation...
Cooper liquidated his father's sawmills and timberland, sold the family mansion and moved into a modest frame house where his mother, a spry 76, still lives...
Since war's end, Georgia-Pacific has boosted sales from $13 million to an estimated $65 million this year, and has become the nation's biggest plywood producer.* But it owned little timberland, thus was afraid of being caught in a price squeeze in purchasing its raw material. This week Georgia-Pacific's Cheatham found a neat solution to the problems of both companies. He bought out the Johnson company lock, stock & barrel stave for $16.8 million...
...next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they do it economically. But that land won't grow a third of the timber we can grow here in the South...
Although Churchill is 550 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and its temperature rarely drops lower than 40° below zero F., it is an ideal spot for pitting men and machines against the cold. Located where the tree line meets Hudson Bay, it offers both timberland and tundra. And what it lacks in low temperatures is more than made up by its high winds...