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Show Cooperative Marketing Cooperative agricultural marketing market-ing and purchasing associations engaged en-gaged primarily in marketing farm products now number more than ; 10,000 in the United States. More ! than a quarter of these organizations organiza-tions were engaged primarily in I purchasing. The membership in the marketing associations is estimated at 2,730,000, while the membership In the purchasing organizations is now 1,500,000. The marketing and purchasing cooperative associations do an annual business of more than five billion dollars. Mount Rainier Explosion Mount Rainier in Washington is nearly three miles high, measured from sea level. It rises nearly two miles above its immediate base. Once it was a complete cone like the famous Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan. Then it was probably 16,000 feet high. A great explosion destroyed the top part of the mountain and reduced its height by some 2,000 feet. The volcano was left beheaded. Indian legends tell of a great eruption. Uses for Lumber Estimated lumber requirements for 1947 total 37 billion board feet, including 11.3 billions for veterans' housing, 4.8 billions for other new construction, |