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...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...
Headquarters for the development of U.S. camouflage is a group of neat, air-conditioned buildings in a pine forest at Fort Belvoir, Va. There experts train camouflage officers who are attached to practically every unit in the U.S. armed forces. Fort Belvoir picks its prospective camoufleurs from officer personnel, rates horse sense and a high I.Q. higher than previous training in art or even engineering. Continually besieged by well-meaning civilians who think they can contribute invaluable ideas or specialized backgrounds to army camouflage work, Fort Belvoir's officers have developed a healthy skepticism, finding that most people have...
...Colorado Springs, 100 Colorado Scouts are transplanting 1,000,000 fir, spruce and pine seedlings for the Pike National Forest...
...same threat that darkens the future of all U.S. civilian industry: shortages in transportation, metals and manpower. Most ominous single paper statistic: at some point or other in its progress toward paper, 80% of all U.S. pulpwood travels on rubber. In the South, trucking is especially strategic, since Southern pine cannot be floated, and, once cut, deteriorates fast...
...stage set was a homely scene: a shabby pine-board house, the decrepit tonneau of a model T. The hero was a cow hand; the heroine, a girl who dreamed of beauty parlors and city lights; the villain, her brother-a jazzing, hitchhiking kid home from the "Aggies." The music had no arias, but many a songful moment, underlined the action as plain people led simple lives, touched with bucolic dignity and rural nobility. Listed as a "music-play," A Tree on the Plains could well have been called folk opera...