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...paper making in the cut-over pine lands and swamps of the South. So-called slash pine can be harvested when five years old and economically manufactured into coarse paper (wrapping paper, newspaper). Owners of large acreage may harvest a fifth of their crop yearly, replant the cut-over area, and have a continuing cycle of growths. Main trouble of Dr. Herty's project is that papermaking mills cost millions, which are now hard to raise...
...grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...
...February 1934, the stockmarket again reached for a record, the averages this time touching no. But in the jargon of chart readers, the market had thus established what is variously called a "supply area," a "resistance level" or a "critical point." To get chart readers bullishly excited the averages would have to pierce that mystic area of 108-110 into new high ground...
Other articles identified by the thief as having been stolen by him have been "stopped" at various pawn shops in the Metropolitan area. A complete list maybe procured early next week from the Cambridge Police Station at Central Square. Sergeant Donlan of the Cambridge Police, is in charge of the Harvard end of the case. The list follows...
Lynching comes in most cases from a mob disillusioned with the methods of normal jurisprudence. Because of the insoluble race problem, it is a particularly flagrant evil in the Southern states. Not until the people of the sub-Mason and Dixon area are sufficiently impressed with the tradition of jurisprudence to take their cases to the court-house instead of to the nearest tree will the scandal come to an end. In the meantime, although causing national embarrassment, Iyaho law is a completely local problem, and the task of checking mob hysters and granting an impartial trial to its citizens...