Word: virgin
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From the heart of the virgin snow...
Roman Catholics who went to Mass on the Feast of the Assumption this week found a new order of service. Special texts have been added to the liturgy in recognition of the new dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption into heaven...
...lost 90% of its virgin commercial timber to fires, insects and the woodman's ax, and trees are still falling about as fast as they are growing. Big U.S. lumber companies have been given most of the blame for this drastic, and usually wasteful leveling of the nation's tall timber. Last week the biggest lumber company in the U.S. took another big step to build the forests up again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled...
Islands of Trees. The tree farm ideas, although standard practice in Europe for years, did not take hold in the U.S. until the late '30s, after most of the nation's virgin timber had been cut. In 1941, the Weyerhaeuser Co. took the first big step; it laid out the first tree farm in Grays Harbor County, Wash...
Director Lloyd Bacon and his technical crew, working with what must be Hollywood's coldest, wettest cast, have handled their subject with skill and resourcefulness. They shot for seven weeks in the waters off Norfolk, Key West and the Virgin Islands, used such special equipment as a seven-ton undersea camera bell, a Navy-developed underwater camera, anti-shark chemicals to protect the actors. John Tucker Battle's script wisely keeps women out of the picture, serves as a dependable framework for the action scenes that make The Frogmen an arresting movie...