Word: timberlands
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...Could Entomologist C. F. Campbell inform your readers whether, after the application of DDT in 20 acres of timberland, the birds that usually appear in them have gone elsewhere...
Three months ago Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture decided to try the deadly chemical on the gypsy-moth cater pillar, one of the worst tree-stripping pests in eastern U.S. forests. From an airplane, entomologists sprayed five pounds of DDT per acre over 20 acres of timberland near Scranton...
Evenings they gather round a campfire and, to a jingly, woodsy brand of folk music, sing "come-all-yez" and tell tall tales of the timberland. Favorites are "The Breaking of the Northwest Boom" and "The Days of Paddy Gillis." Best line in "Paddy Gillis" runs: "They who spat upon their hands and pushed the forest back...
After the Armistice he returned to the U.S., wrote Hitchy-Koo, 1919, then doubled back to Europe. There he married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns...
...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...