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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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584 A-MERICAX 1-URESTRY nients, with certain o))tiniistic reassurances from others. Then the faint burr of propeller and engine electrified the group of watchers; faint and far a bird-like form showed above the trees, and then swej)! up fully into view. \\'as there ever such a thrill ? There was no cheering; everybody was holding his breath! In 1917 it was difTerent. Airplanes were, compara- tively speaking, quite common. Washington, between the parade ground at Fort Myer and the flying field at College Park, had become quite blase to flying machines gliding across the city at twilight. Then, too, the aerial- ists who exhibited their powers at fairs, had added to their repertoires the feat of circling the capitol dome and
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Copyright 1917 by International Film Service, Inc. AT WORK ON THE FRAME FOR A GOVERNME.NT AIRPLANE plane is to be used in war- bu Great care and precision are required in the building of an airplane. If the fare this accuracy of construction involves not merely the life of the aviator, but the safety of an entire army may depend on it if the bird man is engaged in directing the operations of the fighting forces be low. This means that every step must be taken with the utmost skill and caution. The delicate construe tion is apparent. looping-the-loop above the apex of the Washington Monument. Hut these Italians had something new. They used large planes and did all of the exhibition stunts and a few others besides, including a heart-slo))))ing sidewise fall that might fool even an fin-niy pilot into believing they had been mortally hit. "Eyetalians pullin' dat stuff!" was the disparaging remark of a messenger boy who stopped to watch the performance, despite a half-dozen telegrams in his hat. "Don't tell me a bunch o' Wops is gettin' away wid dat box o' tricks. Dem's Americans ; we're de only ones dat's got de goods in dat stuff." And he would not be per- suaded otherwise. No sir-ree! But there were the planes, heavier than air, larger than a freight car in outside dimen- sions, disporting themselves like playful swallows, and do- ing topsy-turvy tumbling thai HO sane swallow ever thought of undertaking. Structures of cloth, and wire and wood, supporting heavy engines and passengers, play- ing in the air with the easy, careless grace of fur-seals in the billows of the sea! "And wood," says the re- current and insistent thought of the forester, "is the essence of their construction." His- tory, which does not go far back in this case, says the same thing. Here is the record. During the years from about 1910 to 1915, the Forest Service made a series of studies of the wood-using in- dustries of the United States, l)y States. These were made in co-operation w i t h the States themselves, or with or- ganizations within the State boundaries, and the results were published by the co- operating agency, or, in some instances by lumber trade journals. These re))orts took u)) each wood-using industry in alpha- betical order, discussed its needs and its value, gave the kinds of woods used and the sources of the raw material. The alphabetical lists usually began with "agricultural im- plements" or "automobiles," and ended with "umbrella

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