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Article: Fifty years of champions. (National Register of Big Trees) (includes related information)
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- American Forests
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- January 1, 1990
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FIFTY YEARS OF CHAMPIONS
1940 The world is in a state of change. Rationing is instituted in Britain. Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders. FDR is re-elected for a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie, and John L. Lewis resigns in disgust as head of the CIO. In the arts, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine are published and the movie version of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath opens in the theaters.
On the home forestry front, the U.S. Forest Service - then only 35 years old - gears up to supply wood to a nation at war. An article in the January 1940 issue of AMERICAN FORESTS magazine notes the ...