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...more self-conscious than the Austro-Hungarian colony in the U. S. are the White Russians. Some 12,000 of them pine for restoration of a Tsar in the person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious names-Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Prince Matchabelli, Vadim Makaroff, the marrying Mdivanis. Mostly they have spent the last 22 years toasting the old days. Though White legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet...
...Southern pine is a sticky, spindly tree that grows weedlike in every abandoned field, reproduces a stand of timber (unlike the North's mighty, slow-growing spruce and fir) in 15 or 20 years. It has long been used for kraft (boxes and wrapping) paper...
Three weeks ago, in Lufkin, Tex., the Daily News went on the street printed throughout on Southern-pine newsprint. It was the first newspaper ever to use a commercially made Southern-pine paper. Last week the Dallas Morning News followed suit, ran off an edition on 35 tons of Southern newsprint. By week's end, seven carloads of the paper Dr. Herty labored to perfect had been delivered to the Morning News press rooms...
Paradoxically, though Lufkin's newsprint sells for only $40 to $50 a ton,* it is harder to make from Southern pine than are more expensive papers. (Texas shortleaf pine yields a newsprint thicker, less pliable than standard newsprint.) Southland's 50,000 tons a year will be no more than a drop in the 3,000,000-ton bucket of the U. S. newsprint market. But if Southland's product becomes generally acceptable, the South's newsprint industry may be due for at least a boomlet...
While all I can do is just pine...