Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Golden, the Colorado School of Mines graduated its largest class (290 engineers) in style. Instead of a sheepskin, each graduate received a five-by-six-inch diploma of sterling silver. The text of each of the four-ounce plates had been photo-engraved, but President Ben H. Parker had to sign them all by hand. He used an electric vibrating scribe, a gadget that looked something like a fountain pen. Said President Parker: "There was nothing...
Eventually, after pedaling a bicycle 500 miles or so from Parnell, Ben turned up at the State Agricultural College of Colorado (now Colorado A. & M.). There he met a kindred spirit, a rugged football player named Merlin ("Deacon") Aylesworth, whose father was the college president. They whooped it up together, on the gridiron and on & off the campus. But it wasn't long before Ben said goodbye to Aylesworth (who later became president of the National Broadcasting Co.) and pedaled back to Parnell. That was the end of his academic education...
...Nettled by the ancient wheeze that plumbers always forget their tools, D. A. Bell, president of the Associated Plumbing Contractors of Colorado, snorted at a Denver convention of the group: "Sheer malarkey. No plumber can carry with him all the tools he needs. A minimum of 3,000 tools and repair parts are required...
These two incidents are pretty indicative of how little the nation is worrying about its natural resources at the present time. The forest rangers in Colorado may be able to keep a wave of close-cropping sheep out of the remaining federal lands, but theirs is an isolated fight. The Mississippi is still depositing thousands of acres of fine mid-western farmland into the Gulf of Mexico; Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior have bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute over who should cure the river's problems. Loggers in Northern New York State are still leaving hanging...
Last week two very different groups of people did some concentrated worrying about conservation. Colorado rangers of the U. S. Forest Service fought a strong push by Western sheep ranchers to graze their flocks without restriction on public lands. The sheep-men were lobbying hard and effectively in Congress. All the same time in Washington, a group of soil experts, engineers, and other conservationists met in what they called the National Emergency Conference on Resources. No Congressmen bothered to show...