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Died. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, 85, land and water conservationist; in Berkeley, Calif. As a forestry professor in Nanking, China, in the 1920s, Lowdermilk concluded that the vast wastelands of northern China were a product of careless exploitation of agricultural resources. In a vigorous lifelong crusade to combat what he termed "man-induced erosion," Lowdermilk oversaw numerous U.S. conservation programs over the years and served as consultant to the governments of Mexico, Japan and Yugoslavia. His pet project was the early agricultural development of Israel, where his suggestion that water from the Jordan River be diverted to irrigate the desert...
...people was based on his parallel education that began when his grandfather decided that, at the age of six, he was ready for initiation into the secret Poro Society. Seventy-five years ago, that society gaimed fame for its resistance of British domination. But by the 1920s, it was actually an indigenous community school, and becoming a member was like making a social debut...
...stay ahead. Thus, if a 7% inflation rate becomes accepted, the real rate may be 9%; if 9% becomes acceptable, the real rate may go to 11%, and so on up. Perhaps the final word on indexing is that a crude form was tried in Germany in the 1920s, and factories wound up paying their workers daily so that the workers could spend the money before it lost still more value...
That kind of complaint goes back at least as far as Woody Guthrie's eloquent pleas for the migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
...over, simply rotating the names of who or what is being put down. To quote from the master, Time wrote that Zabriskie Point was the lowest elevation in the U.S., and that the film Zabriskie Point occupied a similar location in Antonioni's career; or that in the gangland 1920s, pineapple was a euphemism for bomb, which applies to the pineapple epic The Hawaiians. I can recall one of mine (which I'm not at all proud of): I wrote that The April Fools was surely meant to be seen on April 1. And on it goes...