Word: conservationism
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When U.S. children attend grammar school, they learn from their history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that...
Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it...
In short, the farmer was more a political than economic problem. But in an election year no one expected the problem to become smaller or the expense of supporting crops any less. To trim the mounting surpluses, Secretary Benson was mulling over a sheaf of plans for more crop sales...
Income from Conservation. From the total 356,250,000 U.S. acres now sown to non-sod crops, the soil-bank plan would take 16 million out of production in the first twelve months of a 15-year, $1.4 billion program aimed at eliminating 23 million acres. An eventual total of...
Said Benson: "Its impact will be chiefly in areas where topsoil is being wasted in growing crops not needed by today's markets. It will mean better soil and water conservation [and] added income." While the last item was the key for farmers, the emphasis on conservation was a key...