Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Quezon knows well what most Filipinos have yet to discover: that the U. S., in granting independence, is far from purely benevolent. Long ago the Philippines outdealt the New Deal in the matter of socialized industry. The Islands' 72,000 sq. mi. of timber are 99% owned by the Government, forested by license. The rich iron mines of Mindanao (second biggest island, after Luzon) are a Government reservation. It owns and works the coal deposits of Batan Island. It has taken over the Philippine Railroad. But to private enterprise is left the all-important agricultural industry, which since...
...Sweden, skilled in neutrality, last week analyzed the League's sanctions against Italy in a practical light. Finding that Sweden imports from Italy only fruit and wine, the Foreign Affairs Committee wholeheartedly agreed to restrict Italian imports. Exports to Italy, however, were different, including as they do cellulose, timber, iron, steel. Sagely the Committee tabled the subject of restricting Swedish exports to Italy...
...addition to the venerable monarchs of the Yard, Harvard owns millions of trees on a 2.200 acre tract in Worcester County some 75 miles west of Boston. Scattered fragments of primeval timber and a great variety of all stages of regrowth are included in the Harvard Forest. A thousand acres have been set aside as a bird refuge to be administered by the University and the State. Instruction at the Forest is given graduate men working in forestry...
...three miles along the banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business and today...
...location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...