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Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...
...robing room in the Senate wing of the Capitol to the time he went out to take the oath. Outside, under a sea of ineffective umbrellas, several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet and seven Justices of the Supreme Court (including...
...thrusts well mirrored the follies of the Icelandic soul. Then to my attic to nibble on Liederkranz, after which L-, Q-, P-, Shorty, and a St. Bernard named Herman rushed in and fairly dragged me away. (Gad, but am I popular!) Off to a Lithuanian picnic and feasted on pine-smelling borsch and gemutlichkeit gefuilte fish. Sweet Lithuania, haven for the true liberal! Apple-cheeked maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress, and off to the Somerset to meet Sadie Saltenglotz. These Boston debs...
...Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races...
...first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which are thrown a blazing pine tree, an enormous plow, an Archbishop, a giraffe and a cloud of feathers...