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Erosion & Mosquitoes. To keep the valley's best soil from being continually washed into the river by the area's heavy rains, TVA has coaxed the farmers into using a variety of conservation practices: planting trees, contour plowing, diversifying crops, enriching their land with TVA-developed fertilizers. One...
The president of a multiversity "wins few clear-cut victories; he must aim more at avoiding the worst than seizing the best," Kerr said. "The ultimate test is whether the mediation permits progress to be made fast enough and in the right directions; the needed innovations take precedence over the...
> Authorized, by a 50-34 Senate vote, a youth conservation bill that would provide for spending $120 million to aid some 1,000,000 young people who are out of school and out of work. In one program under the bill, boys would be offered jobs in Government parks and...
A spokesman for Sen. Williams said he thought the bill was "almost absolutely certain" to pass the Senate, but said he was less sure of the outlook in the House. "The vote on the Youth Conservation Corps bill earlier this week made us pretty confident about our chances; in the...
The Youth Employment Bill would establish two "Youth Corps": a Youth Conservation Corps modeled on the depression-time CCC to work on federal conservation projects, and a Home Town Youth Corps, whose members would do social work in their home towns.