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Typical of the great men's attitude was the testimony of Albert Clayton Woodman, president of Richfield Oil Corp. of New York, questioned by Assistant U. S. Attorney John Harlan Amen...
When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can spare them all, for I can grow wood quicker in weeds and shrubs. Trees are not the only means of producing cellulose...
...ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable of the Woodman that warmed the snake in his bosom. The Chicago version of that fable tells you What that snake did to the Woodman is NOBODY'S business...
...Brisbane's memory is not always perfect. It was Alice herself who changed size, when she nibbled pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom. The Cheshire Cat, constant in size, faded in and out of sight. tin this fable, the frozen snake came to, bit the Woodman...
...Here shop Britain's King and Britain's Queen. Here come Her Majesty of Spain, Her Majesty of Belgium, many a Lord and many a Lady. Not quite so large as Selfridge's, Harrods admits no superior in quality, in clientele. Head of Harrods is Sir Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series of testimonial advertisements so ingenious as to command the instant...