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South Atlantic Quarterly (1923) 22 (4): 295–303.
Published: 01 October 1923
... in the lumber-cut of most of the southeastern states during the past decade, the great increase in the local price of lumber, news print paper and other for­ est products, and the increasing requirements for timber are matters of much concern. The lumber output of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1930) 29 (4): 369–373.
Published: 01 October 1930
... production of the Northwest. Mass produc­ tion is the vogue in lumbering as in other industries at pres­ ent ; and the demands of mass production mean a rapid drain of forest resources. Timber owners and land boomers of the Pacific Coast prophesy that the timber stands of their region will last indefinitely...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 April 1946
... career, his rise in the timber industry of prerevolutionary Russia, and certain of his experiences in high circles in Czarist days. Next he gives characterizations of some of the leading figures of the early Soviet regime. Among these the portrayal of Trotsky a cold, high-handed, distant personage...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (1): 7–38.
Published: 01 January 1991
... that the problem is not uniformly severe across all tropical nations. Rates of deforestation re­ mained low through 1985 in such important timber provinces as Zaire and Gabon. But this news may be of little comfort: forests in these two countries were relatively undisturbed through 1985 only because...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 April 1946
...Taylor Cole The German Record . By Ebenstein William . New York : Farrar and Rinehart , 1945 . Pp. ix , 334 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 2 $6 The South Atlantic Quarterly in securing a foreign market for Soviet timber, the author sums up his...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1939) 38 (1): 40–51.
Published: 01 January 1939
... the river and saw the wheels all covered with ice so that they could not turn. After break­ fast I with six others went down to Goodyear s Bar for lumber. After dinner several of us went on the side of the mountain and cut trees down for drift timber. After supper I made up my bread and put it to rise. 44...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 781–799.
Published: 01 October 1999
... the building for the first time as its plain facade was dressed with imitation half-timbering and ornamented by miniature replicas of Danish town arms. Since then, its representational features having been periodi­ cally elaborated, the building has become increasingly danefied. In addi­ tion to the imitation...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1971) 70 (3): 386–403.
Published: 01 July 1971
... of New Brunswick. Referring to the square timber trade in that province, he says: A stranger would naturally suppose that such a trade must produce great riches to the country; and that great and rapid improvements would be made. That large towns would be built, that the fair produce of such a trade...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1934) 33 (2): 113–127.
Published: 01 April 1934
... in all other crops combined namely, our timber crop gets never a single penny of recognition in this widely heralded annual report of total crop values by states. The South, as a whole, has 200 million acres in timber against only 32 million in cotton and tobacco combined. Yet timber is not considered...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1983) 82 (4): 424–436.
Published: 01 October 1983
... an annual affair. 15 Herty did just that, accepting invitations to participate in the naval stores get-togethers held each February at Jacksonville, Savannah, or Pensacola. Composed of turpentine producers, factors, timber growers, technical men from bureaus of the federal government, and representatives...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (1): 133.
Published: 01 January 1956
.... Alston was related to several distinguished families of the state, most of whom were rice planters and the owners of many slaves. He himself built a great rice plantation from heavily timbered virgin soil and retired to Columbia with a com­ fortable fortune before the Civil War. These memoirs were...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (1): 2–12.
Published: 01 January 1945
... than Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden, and her other natural resources are more ample than is indicated by cursory observation. Austria s most abundant assets are forests and water power. Ger­ many coveted Austria, from the economic point of view, principally for her timber, which has proved of great...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1934) 33 (2): 171–184.
Published: 01 April 1934
... she express her grati­ tude to Mr. and Mrs. John G. Wallace, of Wallaceton. 172 The South Atlantic Quarterly ning. If woodsmen s axes are heard faintly in the distance felling timber why, nature s fecundity will repair their rav­ ages in two generations. Again, if tales of hidden stills...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1902) 1 (4): 333–340.
Published: 01 January 1902
.... At some early period in the history of the town, people held picnics on the former island, then pleasant and well timbered. Although Little Current is only thirty years old, such a condition of things be­ longs to ancient history. There is hardly a tree left on Picnic Island and the great piles of lumber...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1902) 1 (4): 333–340.
Published: 01 October 1902
.... At some early period in the history of the town, people held picnics on the former island, then pleasant and well timbered. Although Little Current is only thirty years old, such a condition of things be­ longs to ancient history. There is hardly a tree left on Picnic Island and the great piles of lumber...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 January 1956
... distinguished families of the state, most of whom were rice planters and the owners of many slaves. He himself built a great rice plantation from heavily timbered virgin soil and retired to Columbia with a com­ fortable fortune before the Civil War. These memoirs were written by a man who had a keen eye...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1914) 13 (3): 280–282.
Published: 01 July 1914
... was to be torn down at the end of five years and the timbers used in the construction of tene­ ments. Of more significance is another fact. Situated a few feet from the Theatre was a greate longe Barne eighty feet in length and in a very dilapidated state. In the testimony of various witnesses it is brought...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (3): 408–409.
Published: 01 July 1950
... immediately after the Revo­ lution began. Even this quotation, however, does not do full justice to Mr. Chapelle s scholarship, for though he sticks to the ships themselves, it is clear from other materials that he is familiar with many other phases of his story, from the timber problem to a description...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 560–561.
Published: 01 July 1968
... timber framing with straw and clay between, later with panels of brick nogging, and finally of all brick. Bethlehem, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, must have presented a most har­ monious townscape with its buildings of limestone, all from the same quarry, and its roofs of red tile, all...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1968) 67 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 July 1968
... against inclement weather. The high-pitched roofs expressed their use as populous dormitories by their upper and lower ranges of dormer windows. At Bethlehem the earliest houses were built of squared logs and at Salem, of half timber framing with straw and clay between, later with panels of brick nogging...