Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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France has been saving hers.
She plants more trees every year,
and allows none to be cut until it is just right for the market.
She will probably have a good, hirsute covering of woods when Uncle Sam's head is as bald as an egg.
End of chapter 4 Chapter 5 of France to Scandinavia This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by Betty B. How France was made new
ninety thousand dollars for every family in washington seventy five thousand dollars for every one in los angeles fifty five thousand dollars for every one in cleveland or boston that is what each city would have could it divide up the sum france has spent in rebuilding since the world war left a great part of her country in ruins the amount is more than nine thousand millions of dollars it equals three thousand dollars for every soul in chicago or paris
$15,000 for every man, woman, and child in Buffalo, and more than that for every citizen of San Francisco or Pittsburgh.
$9 billion means also an enormous amount of hard work.
Had Adam had that sum when he started to earn his living by the sweat of his face, and had there been 1,000 additional men outside of the Garden of Eden, all endowed with perpetual life, he could have kept that gang working at $5 a day from then until now.
and still have had enough over to pay himself good wages as boss.
Had Methuselah had $9 billion when he was 69 years of age, he could have employed 10,000 men at $1,000 a year each for nine centuries, reforming the world and perhaps preventing the flood in which at the age of 969 he was drowned.
The money laid out equals $2,300 per acre for all of the 6,000 square miles of
of the devastated territory, and so far, I believe, almost every dollar has been honestly spent.
One can see the results of the work in the substantial farms, houses, buildings, factories, and roads, which will last for ages to come.
France has mixed her money with brains and good business and is built well for the far future.
Take the matter of forests.
At the end of the war, a half million acres had to be replanted or repaired.
a third of a million acres had been so utterly ravaged that it will require a half century to bring them back to their normal.
France is doing her reforestation on a gigantic scale.
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