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Several hours later found us squated around our open camp fire, inspecting our equipment for the following day. We scraped off the old wax down to the wood with a homemade scraper and applied out native Klister, which is a mixture of pine pitch and oil. We then heated the skis over the fire (as wax will not stick to wet wood) and with a wax mitten rubbed them to a high glassy finish, making them waterproof. The patience and tireless efforts of these Lapplanders has convinced me that waxing is almost as important as actual skill, as by proper...
...Echo Here, a clearing in a German pine forest at which a single automobile has stopped. A bandy-legged Nazi with whip dangling from his wrist, canteen and dirk at his belt, is driving a file of political prisoners off to political execution...
...brief announcement from an office on Manhattan's Pine Street last week wound up U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al, most significant anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil Co. in 1911. After spending five of its nine years in litigation, the Sugar Institute was officially closing its doors...
...swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard in the U. S. and on the whole proved an unhappy choice. Critic W. J. Henderson of the New York Sun found that "what those pine trees knew was how to sigh and moan...
...Pine Street. Manhattan, home of Goldman, Sachs & Co., the proposed Sears deal had a significance all its own: it signalled the most remarkable investment banking comeback of Depression...