Forest loss from farming and industry in early US expansion
A survey shows US forests shrank as agriculture and related demand drove timber removal far beyond the original stock. Disease and weather killed trillions of board feet, while over four trillion feet were cleared for farming and other uses, leaving a large but uneven remaining supply.
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United States
American Forest Products Industries
Columbia
New World
Qurvey
Homemade Candler Electric Sleht and a tib can
A description of a cheap, easily built egg candling device using a candle and a recycled tin can. It explains lighting the shell from the large end, gripping the egg by the small end, and gently rotating to observe the yolk and contents. Freshness indicated by air space and absence of blood spots or foreign matter.
Smooth Ride Tractor by Monroe Mich Manufacturer
A postwar farm implement from a Monroe Michigan firm, marketed for army tanks retrofitted to carry 200000 seats. The unusual design claims to reduce jolt and injury by smoothing travel, though critics note safety and practicality concerns for field use.
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Monroe Mich
Good Cows Pay A Cow tho produces butter at a year
A fragment notes cows producing varying butter yields, comparing one cow yielding 00 pounds to four cows averaging 0 pounds each, suggesting different profitability in dairy output.
Release God Is My Co Pilot Col Robert L Scott Story
The piece traces Col Robert L. Scott from West Point to wartime service as a noncombat flyer, then a combat instructor, and later a Kittyhawk and air force figure famed for his dogfighting in the Pacific. It covers his rise to command and his reputation as the Old Exterminator, ending with losses from a dogfight.
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God IS
Col
Robert L. Scott
Ead
Tak
Gorme
He & Made CO
2Rd Wishter Group
Walst
Exterminster
Couch
Hengyang
Ling- Ming
Goss
Hirchite
China
Air Corps
Chungking
Kunming
Hidden Valor Over Kowloon and Kunming Patrols
In a vivid airwar recollection a pilot recounts shooting down Japanese twin-engine bombers near Hong Kong and Kowloon, witnessing Fort Stanley prisoners wave, and a daring return to Kunming. He notes Colonel Cooper’s defense, Bayse’s late bomb run, and the intertwined fate of fighters and bombers in China wartime.
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Philippines
Jeanlain
Hongkong
Islaad
Fort Stanley
Mt Lant
Victoria Harbor
Kowloon
Kwettin
Japcanna
Ekwellin
Warteink
Allers
Canton
Ed Bayse
Hongkong Island
Kwat- UN Qye
Bayse
Peafe
Atiima
Cooper
Kunming
India
Ansum
China
Ching
Holloway
Alison
Misaim
Sone
Wey
Solomons
Clinger
Chennault
Caer
Kwellin
Long House
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Begoodrich
Grove
Rae Ae
Reis
GU Be
Qgapter
Tex HiLl
Jim
Jos
Tagtica
Chennaall
Cate
Lieut
Grouscloss
Lett
Seiping
Circle
Lindeite
Cotn
Saad Dani
iSore
FeLea
Weis
Vicks VA
Sethle
Reet Fleischmann
Fleischmann
New York
N.Y
Ben-Gay