Word: conservationism
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FARM POLICY. Nixon okayed Rockefeller's proposal for a doubling of the Department of Agriculture's conservation reserve, for using price supports "at a level best fitted to specific commodities," and for an "expanded food-for-peace program."
Along with more veterans' benefits (already costing some $5 billion a year), greatly expanded "programs to aid urban communities." aid for depressed areas, federal help for schools, a youth conservation corps for the underprivileged, and even federal "incentives" for artists, the platform proposes to implement, on a grand scale...
Died. Hugh Hammond Bennett, 79, chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from its founding in 1935 until his 1952 retirement, a folksy Cassandra whose warnings that the U.S. must improve its conservation practices were largely ignored before the great dust storms of the 19305s; of cancer; in Burlington, N.C...
Texas oilmen are now wrangling over the future of unlimited secondary production. What sparked the dispute is the plan of some secondary-recovery oilmen to start operations in the giant Spraberry Trend-the largest field they have yet tackled. This scares some of Texas' biggest oilmen who are engaged...
High Cost of Conservation. Leading the opposition is Jersey Standard's Humble Oil & Refining Co., Texas' biggest producer. It wants secondary-recovery wells closed down each month much as the ordinary wells are (which are now allowed to pump only eight days a month). Secondary-recovery operators claim...