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...some Soviet timber is cut by "forced labor," but of a peculiar kind. Diarist Knickerbocker reported that these cutters appear to receive the same wages as other Soviet woodsmen. They are forced not to chop wood but to live in certain forest regions where such labor is the only sort in demand...
Paper. If the army of woodsmen led by mighty Paul Bunyan invaded Canada to chop down 80,000,000 cords of pulpwood, they would take so long that by the time the wood was pressed into pulp and paper new forests would have sprung up. For this reason three Canadian pulp and paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money...
...nine factories.? Its 10,000 stores and 60,000 salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests...
That was Paul Bunyan, legendary hero of the logging camps. In his honor, woodsmen from the Northwest camps meet in Paul Bunyan Canyon, near Longview, Wash., for their annual "Rolleo," a carnival featuring the things Paul Bunyan liked to do?log-rolling, timber-topping, axe-twirling, Gargantuan eating, whopper-telling...
...upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties which lie about Bury Hill...