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Enclosing his subscription renewal and adding that "We like your paper," Henry A. Van Den Top of the H. A. Van Den Top retail lumber company in Long Beach, Calif., reports to The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT that he just returned last month from a tour of Europe. Going by way of the polar route through Greenland, the trip took only 2l hours from Los Angeles International Airport to Copenhagen, Denmark. The lumber dealer says they had a rvonderful trip-l0 days in Denmark, 1O days in Holland and 10 days in England. When they started back, they left Copenhagen at 8:10 p.m. on a Wednesday, crossed the International Date Line, and got to Los Angeles airport the same day at 2:15 p.m.-or 5f hours "before they started" by Scandinavian Airlines System.