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$.rr., Foresr Produrrs, tnc., Socromento, Cotifornio, hos grectty increosed the versotility of its 9-ton Gerlinger Lift Truck with the two lob-proven Gertinger occessories illustroted ot lefi. lhe Slope Piler ottochment enobles the operotor to slock loods of green tumber on o 5-degree ongte for fost wdler run-off the Hydroulic Side Shifi mokes it possible to stock loods flush with one onolher, borh in the dry kilns and on trucks ond lroilers, to utilize moximum 3toroge spoce.

Polnting to the increoied performonce of their Lifi Truck equipped with these two Gerlinger attochmenls, this owner soys: r'We've cuf loodlng llme lrom 35 mlnules lo 9 mlnufes wllh our Gerllngerl"

For your copy of our new brochure showing complete line of Gerllnger lift Trucks, Hydroulic Side Shift ond Slope Piler drop ur o cord todofl No obligotionr of courset nation, including banks, railroads, electric power systems, mines, steel plants, etc., and nour has its thumb on the jugular vein of the nation,s economy. The government never said "please" or ..by your leave" to lhe private owners of the industries. Now it looks like chickens coming home to roost when the government of fran seizes and insists on nationalizing the oil industry of that country, which is mostly British in ownership.

I shall not attempt to discuss this matter politically, because I don't know a blame thing about it; which probably puts me in a class with most of those who ARE discussing it. When Britain seized the properties of her own people, the United States government did nothing about it. When fran takes over the oil industry in that country, we stick our noses in. Being only a country boy trying to get along, I fail to see the difierence between the two. But I do think that some facts concerning the size and character of the Iranian oil industry are of interest to all thinking Americans, so here's what I gather on that subject from much recent reading: ing the very explosive Iranian oil industry. Vitally interested in the Iranian oil situation are the 2E0,000,000 Europeans living west of the Elbe River, who are entirely dependent for their oil supplies on the oil fields of the Middle East. As far ?sl we Americans are concerned, the two billion barrels of oil we produce annually takes good care of our present needs, although we consume most of our oil right at home, and our consumption is increasing.

The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, tells about a new government dilemma . According to the editor, the federal government has checked over its stocks and finds it has 11,000 more office desks on hand than persons to sit at them. And he suggests that there are four solutions to this surplus-desk problem. One, tax the people for money to build a warehouse in which to store the desks. Two, burn them. Three, sell them at a nickle each and buy them back for $150 each, in the manner in which billions of dollars worth of war goods were handled. Fourth, employ more federal workers to sit at the desks. The Times Editor offers odds of two to five that horse number four is the one to bet on.

The Anglo-rranian or,

British owned and operated until recentln has oil concessions covering some 100,000 square miles, an area about twice the size of New York State. It has between 360 and 320 oil wells in opera- tion, and the daily production is reported at about 635,000 barrels of oil. About 200 oil tankers, 150 of them British and the other 50 of various nationalities, use the 1g wharves at Abadan, and load an average of 500,000 barrels of oil daily. An oil pipeline from Abadan to Tartous, Syria, would have made the shipment of oil from this area very simple and saved the tankers some 7,000 miles of travel between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, 3500 miles each way. But fran would not permit the building of the pipe_ line,.so the tankers are indispensable to her. The oil reserves of the Middle East are estimated at about 33,000,000,000 barrels. The British population in Iran identified with the oil industry numbeied about 4,000 at the time this trouble started. Those are the physical facts concern_

Philippine Mahogany Meeting

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, surroundings made an ideal setting for the meeting

Other officers elected were: Vice president, Howard R. Black, Black & Yates, Brooklyn; Secretary-Treasurer, Roy Barto, Mahogany Importing Co., Los Angeles; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, George D. Scrim, Scrim Lumber Co., Los Angeles. George Purchase, San Francisco, continues as the Association's Recording-Secretary.

Directors elected were Roy Barto, Walter G. Scrim, Howard R. Black, J. Raymond Peck, Frank J. Connolly, Thomas B. Bledsoe, John G. Ziel, S. M. Nickey Jr., and J. K. McCormick.

At the business sessions matters of interest to the Association, as well as to the industry as a whole were discussed.

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The entertainment in the evenings was under the direction of Mrs. Frank J. Connolly, Mrs. Robert S. Osgood and Mrs. John G. Ziel. Virgil Leach lead the group in community singing with Mrs. H. A.J. Evans and Carl Wendelstein as accompanists on the piano.

The annual banquet was held Wednesday evening in the Terrace Room of the hotel with Robert S. Osgood,acting as master of ceremonies.

Among the guests in attendance at the meeting were Harry J. Jordan of San Francisco, representing the Philippine Lumber Producers Association, Manila, P. I. i Jose Soriano, Bislig Bay Lumber Co., Manila, P. I.; Harry Lilly, Norton-Lilly & Co., San Francisco; Don Weidler, DahicanAmerican Lumber Co., Chicago; W. J. Caine and C. J. Alkinson, Robert Bury & Company (Canada) Ltd., Toronto; John Wolcott, Gray & Rogers, Philadelphia; and John C. Fellows, John C. Fellows Company, Los Angeles.